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Southall 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall]
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| Age Groups | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 1-2 years | 2-4 years | 5-14 years | 15 years and over | Total | |
| Primary Vaccination | 195 | 8 | 273 | |||
| Re-vaccination | 2 | 20 | 120 | |||
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina)
The number of notifications received during the year was 131 as compared with 104
for the previous year. 16 cases were admitted to hospital for isolation and treatment,
and 115 were nursed at home. Secondary cases occurred in 13 instances where the first
case was nursed at home, 3 of these households had each 3 members suffering from scarlet
fever.
No cases of diphtheria were notified to the Department.
The following information supplied by the County Medical Officer shows the number of children immunised against diphtheria during the year.
| Number of Children who completed a full course of Primary Immunisation in Southall during the year | Number of Children who were given Secondary or Reinforcing Injection during the year (i.e. having in a previous year received a complete full course) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age at Date of Final Injection | ||||
| Under 1 | 1-4 | 5-14 | Total | |
| 235 | 274 | 27 | 536 | 585 |
In the following table is shown the number of children at 31st December, 1953, who had completed a course of immunisation against diphtheria at any time before that date:—
| Age at 31.12.53: | Under 1 | 1-4 | 5-9 | 10-14 | Total under 15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number immunised | 83 | 1,939 |
The number of children immunised for the first time during 1953 was 536 as compared
with 540 in 1952. The percentage of children receiving primary immunisation against
diphtheria appears not to have fallen as compared with 1952, although the figure is not so
high as in years previous. The number of children obtaining reinforcing injections increased
considerably from 317 in 1952 to 585 in 1953, and the figures as a whole are satisfactory,
though an increase in the number of children protected by immunisation against diphtheria
is still desirable.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
No cases of ophthalmia neonatorum were notified during the year.
Distribution of Infectious Disease Notifications
For the incidence of various infectious diseases notified during the year, under age
groups and locality see Appendix, Tables VIII and IX.
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