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Health Visiting
The following statistics relate to the work of Health Visitors:—
No. of visits to Expectant Mothers 331
No. of visits to children under five 7,138
No. of other visits 11,264
No. of non-access visits 3,970
Home Nursing
The ten full-time Home Nurses employed in the Area paid 24,439
visits to 1,351 cases during 1960.
Vaccination and Immunisation
Smallpox Vaccination. The total number of primary vaccinations
carried out in 1960 for persons of all ages was 933, of whom 520 were
infants under one year of age. This means that approximately 24.7%
of infant are being vaccinated during the first year of life.
Poliomyelitis Vaccination
The publicity given to this scheme over the past four years has
borne fruit, in the fact that Poliomyelitis Vaccination appears to have
become a "must" in the minds of the majority of parents, and
acceptances for the vaccination of infants and young children were
received regularly throughout the year. In the older age groups,
acceptances are more spasmodic, periodic increases occurring whenever
an epidemic occurs, or some intensive propaganda brings a reminder
of the danger of being unprotected.
The Scheme was further extended early in 1960 to include persons
born before 1932 who had not reached their 40th birthday. During the
year, 6,309 persons were vaccinated as follows:—
Children 2,013
Young persons 840
Persons born before 1932 and under 40 yrs. 3,616
Others 22
In addition 9,678 third (or booster) injections were given. A
total of 22,353 primary and booster injections were given, of which
17,786 were performed by general practitioners.
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