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DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION, 1957
The following is a summary of the work carried out during
the year:—
Total number of immunisations completed :
(a) School age 302
(b) Pre-school age 1,048
Total 1,350
(c) Number already immunised having a
reinforcing dose 1,245
Details of the immunisations included in the above total are
set out below:—
Number completed at Schools 225
„ „ „ Welfare Centres 354
„ „ ,, Town Hall Clinic 87
„ „ „ Brookscroft 57
„ „ by General Practitioners 627
Total 1,350
The total for 1956 was 1,197.
252 children included in the above figures were given combined
whooping cough/diphtheria antigen and 119 children were
given whooping cough/tetanus/diphtheria antigen by general
practitioners. These prophylactics were not supplied by the
County Council.
There have been only two confirmed cases of diphtheria in the
last 11 years, the last being in 1950, and no death.
The number of children immunised, especially in the 0—1
age group, falls short of the target of immunisation in this group,
i.e., 75 %. The percentage of children immunised in this age group
was 55.
During the past five years the numbers immunised in the
various age groups were as follows:—