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Total immunised in all age groups .22,330.
The Scheme, as is that for vaccination, is administered
by the Area Office of the Middlesex County Council by whom
the figures have been supplied.
The percentage of the child population immunised in each
age group is as follows:—
0—4 years—67.4% 5—14 years—77.1%
Smallpox.
BRIGHTON OUTBREAK.
In this connection it transpired that 17 persons resident
in Hendon had been concerned with the hospital in Brighton
where the cases were temporarily isolated or with patients
discharged from that hospital.
All these cases were kept under observation.
The measure of control was satisfactory and no case of
Smallpox occurred in the Borough as a result of the outbreak.
S,S. " RANCHI."
Owing to the dispersal of passengers and crew from S.S.
" Ranchi " from which a case of Smallpox was removed, 18
contacts proceeded to addresses in the Borough and were kept
under supervision. Only one contact gave rise to any concern,
an Indian boy aged 9 years who was reported as being unwell
and having a rash. Successive examinations showed no symptoms
indicating Smallpox and the boy recovered.
S.S. " STRATHMORE."
A 12-year-old girl passenger who had embarked at Bombay
on the 26th January, 1951, became ill on the 28th and
from 30th onwards was isolated in the ship's hospital as a
case of Chickenpox. She was admitted as such to a hospital
in Essex, but on the 13th February the case was reviewed in
the light of further information and this led to a suspicion
that she was, in fact, suffering from Smallpox. This diagnosis
was subsequently confirmed.
14 contacts of this case, who proceeded to Hendon, were
kept under observation. One of these, a child, who developed
a rash, was seen by me in consultation, but she was not
suffering from Smallpox.
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