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Immunisation against Diphtheria
The recorded number of persons under 16 years of age who received a primary
course of immunisation was 3,912, and 7,237 received a reinforcing dose.
Of the children born in 1965, 3,501 had received primary immunisation by the
end of 1967, representing an acceptance rate of 82.4% (England and Wales (provisional)
73%).
Immunisation against Whooping Cough
The recorded number of persons under 16 years of age who received a primary
course of immunisation was 3,435, and 2,692 received a reinforcing dose.
Of the children born in 1965, 3,253 had received primary immunisation by the
end of 1967, representing an acceptance rate of 76.5% (England and Wales (provisional)
72%).
Immunisation against Tetanus
The recorded number of persons under 16 years of age who received a primary
course of immunisation was 4,649, and 6,764 received a reinforcing dose.
Of the children born in 1965, 3,501 had received primary immunisation by the
end of 1967, representing an acceptance rate of 82.6% (England and Wales (provisional)
73%).
Immunisation against Poliomyelitis
The recorded number of persons under 16 years of age who received a primary
course of immunisation was 4,082, and 3,381 received a reinforcing dose.
Of the children born in 1965, 3,544 had received primary immunisation by the
end of 1967, representing an acceptance rate of 83.4% (England and Wales (provisional)
68%).
Immunisation against Measles
Advice was given in Ministry of Health Circular CMO 20/67 that the accepted
procedure for measles immunisation that an injection of killed measles vaccine
followed four weeks later by an injection of live measles vaccine (K + L), or one
injection of live measles vaccine given alone (L) was superseded by a single dose
of live attenuated measles vaccine, preferably given in the second year of life. It
was still not recommended that authorities generally should make arrangements to
offer immunisation against measles but trials were continuing.
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