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In accordance with the advice contained in Ministry of Health Circular 10/63,
the staff of the Public Health Department and their families were offered a reinforcing
dose of poliomyelitis vaccine; all accepted. The possibility of health staff coming into
contact with smallpox is similarly covered by offering re vaccination every 3 years.
This was last offered and accepted by all members of the staff in 1962.
Certain categories of staff in this and other departments of the Council, such as
dustmen, gardeners, building trade operatives, disinfectors and sewer men, by the
nature of their work, run the risk of contracting tetanus. I should like to see immunisation
against tetanus offered to these people by the new Borough Council of Barnet.
International Certificates of Vaccination
Only three forms of international certificates of vaccination have been prescribed
namely for smallpox, cholera and yellow fever—and persons who are being vaccinated
against these diseases should in their own interests see that their certificates are on the
international forms. There is no international certificate of vaccination against typhoid
fever or paratyphoid fever, but apart from any requirement by a particular country, all
persons going abroad are advised to be effectively vaccinated against these diseases.
Vaccination against any disease other than yellow fever can be done by a
person's own doctor or exceptionally (by arrangement) at a hospital. Yellow fever
vaccination must, for international and technical reasons, be done only at a centre
designated by the Government. A free yellow fever vaccination service has been
established for this purpose (see information section, page 52).
The international forms for smallpox and cholera must be obtained by the
traveller himself, and after completion by the doctor, taken to the Local Authority for
authentication. During the year, 1,094 certificates were authenticated.
Statistical Tables—see pages 71-74.
RESEARCH
Salmonella Infection in Poultry (1)
The practice of eviscerating poultry in retail shops which sell other foodstuffs
is common in England and Wales. Galbraith, N. S. et al(2) described an outbreak
of Salmonella Saint-paul infection due to cooked meat which was probably contaminated
by the infected intestinal contents of ducks eviscerated in the same room
as that in which the meat was prepared.
In 1961 and 1962 retail butchers' and fishmongers' shops in Hendon and Finchley
were visited periodically by public health inspectors who collected cloacal swabs of
untrussed poultry offered for sale. Broiler fowls, prepacked poultry and other birds,
which were eviscerated before being sent to the retail shops, were not included in the
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