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Wembley 1942
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wembley]
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In considering any significance of these
figures it must be taken into consideration
that in them are contained the figures relating
to two Nurseries in which there was actually no
introduction of Whooping Cough at all, and that
at another Nursery only two cases had occurred.
The special observations made at Ealing
Road Nursery should be recorded. The Nursery
opened on 2nd December, 1941, and the first
case occurred on 6th January, 1942. Between
this date and 24th April, 1942, there were
17 cases. Another outbreak v/ith 10 cases was
experienced between 12th January, 1943, and
1st April, 1943.
Ealing Road Nursery.
| No. on entering Nursery not protected by previous attack. | No. treated with full course vaccine. | No. known to have been subsequently attacked. | No. not treated with full course vaccine. | No. known to have been subsequently attacked. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ealing Road Nursery. | ||||
| 58 | 35 | 4 | 23 | 23 |
Regarding all these figures it must be
emphasised that further experience is required
and factors taking note of the length of
exposure and its varying risk in each individual
child and the interval since immunisation
treatment all require some consideration for any
such figures to have statistical significance.
It is also to be remembered that when a child
leaves the Nursery the necessity of reliable
and trained observation is lost, a most important
point in any statistical evaluation.
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