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VACCINATION AGAINST SMALLPOX
The number of persons vaccinated for the first time by General Practitioners and
Medical Officers of the Local Health Authority was three thousand nine hundred
and twenty-one.
Ten thousand two hundred and thirty-two were re-vaccinated.
INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATES OF VACCINATION
Persons travelling to certain foreign countries must produce a certificate of
vaccination or inoculation completed by their own medical practitioners. In several
countries certificates are not accepted unless they are endorsed by a medical officer in
the government or local authority of the country of issue. A form of authentication
which has been accepted by the health authorities abroad is that given by public health
authorities and identified by a rubber stamp impression on the certificate. The rubber
stamp in this office bears the words "Finchley Corporation—Signature of doctor
authenticated." The purpose of the authentication is to provide proof that the signature
of the person issuing the certificate is that of a registered medical practitioner.
During the year 5,215 certificates were authenticated.
TUBERCULOSIS
Two persons died from tuberculosis during 1962, giving a death rate of 0.03 per
1,000 population.
Twenty-six new cases were notified, seven less than in the previous year. The
case rate per 1,000 population was 0.38.