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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Ilford 1962

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]

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Table: Details of the immunisation carried out during the year 1962 are given in the following table:-

Details of the immunisation carried out during the year 1962 are given in the following table:-

Form of ImmunisationPrimary CoursesReinoculationsAttendances at Clinics
Diphtheria only:
Kenwood Gardens Clinic847100
Mayesbrook Clinic357110
Infant Welfare Centres22835
Totals at Clinics13132245
General Practitioners261447-
Totals274579245
Whooping Cough only:
Kenwood Gardens Clinic14-42
Mayesbrook Clinic8-26
Infant Welfare Centres15-31
Totals at Clinics37-99
General Practitioners16457-
Totals2015799
Tetanus only:
Kenwood Gardens Clinic51779
Mayesbrook Clinic547110
Infant Welfare Centres7010153
Totals at Clinics17524342
General Practitioners35390—
Totals528114342
Diphtheria, Whooping Cough and Tetanus:
Kenwood Gardens Clinic41986
Mayesbrook Clinic492101
Infant Welfare Centres7411210
Totals at Clinics16422397
General Practitioners1,107254-
Totals1,271276397
Diphtheria and Tetanus (combined):
Kenwood Gardens Clinic36973
Mayesbrook Clinic351292
Infant Welfare Centres321787
Totals at Clinics10338252
General Practitioners6529-
Totals16867252
Diphtheria and Whooping Cough (combined):
General Practitioners4938-
Whooping Cough and Tetanus (combined):
General Practitioners22-

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The programme now generally operating in clinics in Essex and by
many of the general practitioners provides for poliomyelitis vaccination to
be undertaken before triple immunisation against diphtheria, whooping
cough and tetanus, whereas previously it followed immunisation against
first whooping cough and then diphtheria. Consequently, in many cases
the primary course of triple immunisation is not now completed before the
child's first birthday and this in part accounts for the reduction in the
numbers immunised during 1962, when compared with previous years as
shown in the table below.