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Enfield 1966

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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Table: TABLE 19VACCINATION AND IMMUNISATIONCompleted Primary Courses of Immunisation by end of 1966 of Children born in 1964

TABLE 19

VACCINATION AND IMMUNISATION

Completed Primary Courses of Immunisation by end of 1966 of Children born in 1964

Immunisation againstNo. of Children Immunised (Enfield)Acceptance Rate %
EnfieldEngland & Wales
Diphtheria3,79891.476
Whooping Cough3,56785.874
Tetanus3,79091.276
Poliomyelitis3,70089.172
Smallpox2,28054.938

Table: TABLE 20PREVENTION OF ILLNESS, CARE AND AFTER-CARETuberculosis Statistics of Chest Clinics

TABLE 20

PREVENTION OF ILLNESS, CARE AND AFTER-CARE

Tuberculosis Statistics of Chest Clinics

MenRespiratoryNon-Respiratory
WomenChildrenTotalMenWomenChildrenTotal
1,156852802,0887912211212
2. Number of cases of respiratory tuberculosis under Section 1 above, new to the clinic (but excluding transfers from other clinics) during the year ended 31st December, 1966.
ClassificationNon-Bacteriologically * ConfirmedBacteriologically Confirmed
MenWomenChildrenTotalMenWomenChildrenTotal
Group I2730207784—12
Group II2921—50112—13
Group III—2—27——7
165320129266—32
3. Number of cases of non-respiratory tuberculosis included in 1 above, new to the clinic (but excluding transfers from other clinics) during the year ended 31st December, 1966.
MenWomenChildrenTotal
212216
4. Number of cases included in 1 above whose broncho-pulmonary secretion
was positive during the year31.
* The three sub-divisions of new respiratory cases are estimated as follows from the standard P.A. film:
Group I — Total area of disease not exceeding one third of one lung in aggregate.
Group 11 — Total area of disease not exceeding two thirds of one lung in aggregate.
Group III — Total area of disease exceeding (including miliary disease) two thirds of one lung in aggregate.
Tuberculous pleural effusions, pleural thickening without obvious lung involvement and enlarged hilar glands are placed in Group I.