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Immunisation against poliomyelitis has continued,
arrangements being made for this to be done by family
doctors, at clinics, or at places of work, whichever is
the most satisfactory arrangement.
The number of persons who completed a course of three
injections during the year is as follows:-
Children born in the years 1943 - 1961 2,610
Young persons born in the years 1933 - 1942 1,160
Persons born before 1933 who have not
passed their 40th birthday 4,309
Others 321
Total 8,400
By the end of the year a total of 55,624 persons in
Ealing had completed a course of immunisation against
poliomyelitis.
PUERPERAL PYREXIA.
44 notifications were received. With the exception of
one all occurred in hospitals.
SCARLET FEVER
Cases showed a marked decrease, 67 against 117 in
1960 and 269 in 1959.
SMALLPOX.
Eight persons were kept under surveillance as possible
contacts of cases which arrived by air from Pakistan.
In 1961, 2,079 infants under one year of age were
vaccinated against smallpox representing approximately
74% of this age group.
TUBERCULOSIS.
There were 93 pulmonary notifications, 64 male and 29
female. This compared with a total of 87 notifications in
1960 of which 48 were male and 39 female. There were 6
male and 4 female non-pulmonary notifications. The figures
for 1960 were the same in regard to males but there were
12 female non-pulmonary notifications in that year. There
were 7 pulmonary deaths and no non-pulmonary deaths
compared with 10 pulmonary deaths and one non-pulmonary
death in 1960.
WHOOPING COUGH.
Only 51 notifications of whooping cough were received
compared with 258 in the previous year.