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1954. 1955. 1956.
Clerical 4 2 2
Housewives 2 3 2
Children 1
Professional Classes 1
Factory Workers 1 1 -
Manual Workers 4 3 2
Hairdressing 1 – –
Food Trades - – –
Nurses – – 1
Unclassified 6 2 -
It will be appreciated that the numbers of
tuberculosis cases occurring in Friern Barnet are
fortunately not sufficiently large to allow of any
significant conclusions in regard to classification
being drawn. We will continue, however, to maintain
these tables, so that any obvious trend can be studied.
It will already be known that the Middlesex
County Council has instituted a scheme for B.C.G. vaccination
of children in the 13-year age group. Two schemes
were prepared in the early part of 1956, and were put into
effect for the first time in the autumn of the same year.
The first scheme was carried out as part of a Medical
Research Council investigation, designed to assess the
relative values of freeze-dried and liquid vaccine.
The purpose and details of this investigation were
fully explained to the Education Sub-Committee, so that
the objects of the scheme would be fully appreciated.
It must not be thought that some children were given an
inferior or an unsatisfactory product. The Medical
Research Council merely wished to ascertain whether
there would,be any advantage in freeze-dried vaccine
over liquid vaccine, and whether the freeze-dried product
now being manufactured in this country could be used
extensively. We were only too happy to co-operate
with the Medical Research Council in this investigation,
which has proceeded without incident in secondary
modern schools.
Somewhat later in date, but still during 1956,
we began what might be described as our normal B.C.G.
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