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a reduction of 12 compared with the previous year
Medical Arrangements for Long Stay Immigrants
During the year information was received from various
Port Health Authorities in respect of 118 long stay immigrants
who were stated to be proceeding to addresses in this Borough
This is an increase of 28 on the previous year
In 61 cases, successful contact was made and appropriate
advice given on health matters, of the remainder 53 were coming
to this country to work in local hospitals and in tljese cases no
contact was made with them as their place of domicile was
under the control of the Regional Hospital Board,
The countries where the passports of these long stay
immigrants were issued were as follows:-
Commonwealth
Caribbean — 33
India — 15
Pakistan — 1
Other Asian — 24
African — 28
Other — 9
Non-Commonwealth
European — 7
Other — 1
TOTAL - 118
Smallpox Contacts
Thirty-six overseas passengers — whose destination was
an address in this Borough - were referred to the Department
during the year and kept under surveillance for up to 14 days
under the Public Health (Ships) (Aircraft) Regulations, 1970.
These passengers had arrived at airports/ports in this
country from a declared locally infected or endemic area and
were not in possession of valid international certificates of
vaccination against smallpox These were mostly cases where
vaccination was contra-indicated because of age or other health
grounds
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