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Romford 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford]
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This, however, does not give a complete record, as children,
as a general rule, do not complete inoculation earlier than their first
birthday. By allowing for this, the percentage of children immunised
between one and five years of age is raised to 58.
Table 15 gives the statistics since the inauguration of the
scheme in Romford in 1935, till the end of 1951.
TABLE 15
| Number of Immunising injections given at the Clinics | 35,311 |
| Number of children who have completed the course of Injections, either at the Clinics or by own doctors | 19,100 |
| Number of Schick Test Injections given at the Clinics, including Control Injections | 22,825 |
| Number who have been Schick Tested | 11,432 |
(d) Dysentery.
Eighteen cases were notified as belonging to Romford, and all
were due to Shigella Sonnei.
(e) Food Poisoning.
During the year 29 cases were notified, which proved to be
suffering from food poisoning. In addition, 133 notified cases were
investigated, but were proved not to be suffering from this
condition.
The following table sets out the details as required by the
Ministry of Health.
TABLE 16
| (a) | Total number of Outbreaks | 2 | |
| (b) | Number of Cases | 61 | |
| (c) | Number of Deaths | Nil | |
| (d) | |||
| (i) Organisms or other Agent responsible | Salmonella Typhi-Murium | Unknown | |
| (ii) Outbreaks attributable to above | 1 | 1 | |
| (e) | |||
| (i) Foods involved | Unknown | ||
| (ii) Outbreaks attributable to above | 2 | ||
One outbreak, which occurred in a school is summarised below :
On the 10th January, the Headmaster of School A drew my
attention to the absence of a number of children on that day, suffering
from abdominal pain, sickness, and diarrhoea. I made