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APPENDIX 2
Miscellaneous
(a) Letters to Doctors
Letters on the following subjects were circulated to Wood
Green practitioners in 1959, some under my signature as Medical
Officer of Health and others either as Area Medical Officer or
District School Medical Officer :-
January 16th - Old Persons' Welfare - Assistance in the
Home, etc.
February 26th - List of useful addresses and telephone numbers
April - Laboratory Collections - Easter Holiday.
April 20th - Polio Vaccine - temporary shortage of vaccine.
May - Laboratory Collections - Whitsun.
June 5th - Poliomyelitis - occurrence of cases in
Islington and vaccination sessions.
June 15th - Poliomyelitis - continuance of Islington
outbreak - vaccine in single dose containers.
July 13th - Poliomyelitis - cases in Wood Green,
July 16th - Poliomyelitis - limited outbreak in Wood Green
and vaccination.
July 22nd - Further cases of Poliomyelitis.
July 23rd - Poliomyelitis - further information re Wood
Green cases.
July 27th - Further case of Polio,
July 29th - Polio Vaccine and Penicillin Sensitivity-
August 4th - Poliomyelitis - Vaccination of Contacts.
September 24th - Polio Vaccination - Expectant Mothers.
November 12th Immunisation and Vaccination Programme.
December 4th - Notification of cases of dysentery.
December 10th - Laboratory Collections of specimens - Christmas
Holiday.
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