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46
Column 4 includes only children who were vaccinated during 1967 and
were under two years old at the time,and is calculated as a percentage of
children born during 1966. This is considered to give a reasonable estimate
of the proportion of young children being vaccinated against smallpox.
AMBULANCE SERVICE
The Borough Council is not an ambulance authority, this service being
the responsibility of the Greater London Council. The service in the borough
is co-ordinated from the main area control centre in New Maiden.
PREVENTION OF ILLNESS. CARE AND AFTER CARE
Tuberculosis
The measures for the prevention, control and treatment of tuberculosis
are directed by the chest physicians and staff of the Chest Clinic at Kingston
Hospital.
During 1967, 47 cases were notified in the borough and of these, 46
were pulmonary and one non-pulmonary. Eleven of the notifications were in
respect of two families in which 9 children developed primary tuberculosis.
The 46 pulmonary cases were in the undermentioned stages of the
disease:
A. or Tuberculosis - (sputum negative) 26
B.1 or Tuberculosis + (early cases,
sputum positive) 3
B.2 or Tuberculosis + (intermediate cases,
3putum positive) 10
B.3 or Tuberculosis + (advanced cases,
sputum positive) 5
Not known 2
The non-pulmonary case was tuberculous glands of neck.
On 1st January 1967 there were 435 cases on the register and at
the end of the year this figure had decreased to 407: