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Number of Schick tests following immunisation 67
Number negative60
Number positive 2
Number not seen5
Total number of immunisations completed during 1947 :—
(a) School age
810
(b) Pre-school age
1,844
4
2,658
(d) Number already immunised having a reinforcing
dose — - 3,541
The above total includes 152 children immunised at Brookscroft
Child Welfare Centre and approximately 366 by Private
Practitioners.
Number of special clinics held for immunisation 52
Number of attendances made 1,795
Average attendance per session 34.5
Included in the total of 2,658 were :—
(i) Number protected at Child Welfare Centres 574
(ii) Immunisation at Schools—
Number completed immunised713
Number partly immunised 97
Number having re-inforcing dose, immunised in
previous years 3,147
At the end of 1947, out of a total child population (i.e., 0 to
15 years) of 25,070, 18,122 or 72.2 per cent, had been immunised.
The figure of 18,122 represents 52.4 per cent, of children under
five years and 86 per cent, of children between five and fifteen years.
The number of children (as adjusted by inward and outward
transfers) immunised during 1947 was 3,141, an increase of 190
on the adjusted 1946 figure.
Diphtheria Incidence (corrected diagnoses) :—
1944 13
1945 16
1946 23
1947 Nil
General Practitioner Scheme.—This was extended in 1946 to
cover all children up to the age of 15 years at a fee of 3s. per
injection.
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