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Bromley 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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introduced. It will be interesting to note whether there is any great
change in the acceptance rate for vaccination against smallpox now
that this is the sole responsibility of the General Practitioner to
provide this service.
Smallpox
A total of 3,020 children, mostly between one and two years
of age, received primary vaccination, and 563 children were
re-vaccinated during the year.
| Year of Birth | Others Under Sixteen | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 1967 | 1966 | 1965 | 1961/4 | |||
| Diphtheria | 1.574 | 2,109 | 113 | 48 | 74 | 58 | 3,976 |
| Whooping Cough | 1,574 | 2,101 | 105 | 40 | 48 | 34 | 3,902 |
| Tetanus | 1,574 | 2,108 | 113 | 48 | 77 | 211 | 3,902 |
| Poliomyelitis | 835 | 2,876 | 299 | 79 | 170 | 70 | 4.329 |
| Measles | 9 | 1,170 | 1,305 | 1.087 | 2,406 | 226 | 6,203 |
| Re-inforcing Doses Diphtheria | - | 523 | 2,014 | 414 | 3,222 | 260 | 6,433 |
| Whooping Cough | — | 504 | 1,851 | 359 | 1,394 | 94 | 4,202 |
| Tetanus | — | 523 | 2,014 | 417 | 3,238 | 418 | 6,610 |
| Poliomyelitis | — | 28 | 149 | 53 | 3,066 | 196 | 3.492 |
| Measles | — | — | — | — | — | — | _ |
| Children born in 1967 | Smallpox (Children under 2) (4) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whooping Cough (1) | Diphtheria (2) | Poliomyelitis (3) | ||
CHIROPODY
The Health Welfare and Children Committee of the 18th
September, 1968, resolved, in view of financial restrictions, to
curtail the chiropody service by the termination of the employment
of all contractual chiropodists.
After this decision, there was a substantial public protest and
212 letters of protest were received from patients. In view of this,
the situation was reviewed by the Health, Welfare and Children
Committee of the 30th October, 1968 and the Committee recommended
that the Council should re-instate the service to the
position which it was prior to the 18th September, 1968. The
Council at its meeting accepted this recommendation. During the
year under review 28,097 treatments were given under the scheme,
of these 9,543 were domiciliary and 18.554 were surgery cases.