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Up to the end of the year the number of pessons who had
received two doses was:—
Children 12,756
Expectant Mothers 342
Young Persons 27
Other Groups 67
13,192
of which the following were done in 1958:—
Children 9,894
Expectant Mothers 342
Young Persons 27
Other Groups 67
10,330
By the end of the year 1,694 persons had received third doses.
It is of interest to note that most of the teenagers who were
presented for poliomyelitis vaccination also showed evidence of
previous B.C.G. vaccination.
B.C.G. VACCINATION
Vaccination of schoolchildren in the year preceding their fourteenth
birthday continued. The scheme was fully described in the
report of the School Medical Officer for 1954. During 1958
acceptances were received from 1,218 children out of 2,147 who
were eligible, i.e., 56.7%.
Details are as follows:—
Heaf positive 131
Percentage positive 11.6
Heaf negative 995
Number absent from test 92
B.C.G. given 995
The percentages of children Heaf positive in previous years
were :—
1954 1955 1956 1957
17.6% 13.0% 14.2% 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
February. Dr. Pollock reported that of 277 young persons invited
for this sixth annual chest X-ray examination, 152 attended, i.e.,
58% of the total invited. Of these 56% completed the skin test.
Again of the 161 who did not attend the 1957 check-up, thirty-nine
attended during 1958.