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acceptances were received from 1,246 children out of 1,926 who
were eligible, i.e., 64.7%.
Details are as follows:—
Heaf positive 165
Percentage positive 13.8
Heaf negative 1026
Number absent from test 55
B.C.G. given 1026
The percentage of children Heaf positive in previous years
were:—
1954 1955 1956
17.6% 13.0% 13.8%
TUBERCULOSIS VACCINE TRIALS
(Medical Research Council)
Dr. T. M. Pollock, Physician-in-Charge of the vaccine trials
arranged for the annual follow-up in Walthamstow to be made in
June. Subsequently Dr. Pollock reported that of 202 young persons
invited for this fifth annual chest X-ray examination, 117 attended,
i.e., 58% of the total invited. Of these, 69% completed the skin
test. Of the 115 who did not attend the 1956 check-up 32 attended
during 1957.
AMBULANCE FACILITIES
(Section 27)
The Ambulance Service is administered centrally from
Chelmsford via the Control Centre at Ilford, and (as far as information
is available), it appears to be adequate for the needs of the
Borough.
The Local Service has continued from the Ambulance Depot,
which is situated at the Borough Council's Fulbourne Road Depot.
PREVENTION OF ILLNESS — CARE AND AFTER-CARE
(Section 28)
TUBERCULOSIS
Dr. H. Ramsay, Consultant Chest Physician at the Walthamstow
Chest Clinic, has contributed the following:—
" The figures of main interest are set out below. They
refer, of course, to the combined attendances of Walthamstow
and Chingford patients.