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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Ealing 1968

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]

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VACCINATION AND IMMUNISATION
Under Section 26 of the National Health Service Act, 1946, the Council provides vaccination
and immunisation against the following diseases: -
Diphtheria Poliomyelitis
Whooping-cough Smallpox
Tetanus Tuberculosis
The acceptance rates during the year (expressed as a percentage of total births) were:-
Immunisation. against diphtheria, whooping-cough and tetanus 69.3.
Immunisation against poliomyelitis 63. 5
Vaccination against smallpox 66

Table: Full details of immunisation carried out during the year are as follows:-

Full details of immunisation carried out during the year are as follows:-

Type of vaccineAdministered in clinicsAdministered by general practitionersTotal
Diphtheria/whooping-cough/ tetanus321214464658
D iphtheria/tetanus8961801076
Diphtheria81826
Tetanus29962361
Poliomyelitis392316775600

Table: Reinforcing doses

Reinforcing doses

Diphtheria/whooping-cough/ tetanus25929823574
D iphtheria/tetanus37677774544
Diphtheria211738
Tetanus263110373
Poliomyelitis230511623467