[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield] page 152

Enfield 1969

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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TABLE 18

VACCINATION AND IMMUNISATION

Completed Primary Courses of Immunisation by end of 1969 of Children born in 1967

Number of Children in Enfield born in 1967: 4,137
Immunisation Against	No. of Children Immunised (Enfield)	Acceptance Rate per cent
		Enfield	England & Wales (1968)
		Diphtheria	3,822	92.4	79
Whooping Cough	3,633	87.8	77
Tetanus	3,822	92.4	Not available
Poliomyelitis	3,619	87.5	77
Smallpox	2,289	55.3	38
Measles	1.300	31.4	Not available

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TABLE 19

PROPHYLAXIS, CARE AND AFTER-CARE Tuberculosis Statistics of Chest Clinic

Men		Respiratory			Total		Men	Non-Respiratory				Total
Men		Women	Children		Total		Men	Women		Children		Total
916		673	96		1,685		72	118		11		201
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, 1969:
Classification		Non-Bacteriologically Confirmed						Bacteriologically Confirmed
		Men		Women		Children	Total	Men	Women		Children		Total
	Group I	27		43		13	83	4	6		—		10
	Group II	33		25		—	58	10	4		—		14
	Group III	4		1		—	5	1	1		—		2
		64		69		13	146	15	11		—		26
3 Number of cases of non-respiratory tuberculosis included in Section 1 above, new to the clinic (but excluding transfers from other clinics) during the year ended 31st December, 1969:
Men				Women			Children	Total
5				7			—	12
4 Number of cases included in Section 1 above, whose broncho-pulmonary secretion was positive during the year 32.
* 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 II —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.