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Under 5 years of age 645
5 to 15 years of age 85
730
The number of children who received a secondary or re-inforcing
injection was 561.

The number of children immunised against Whooping Cough
during the year 1960 was:-
Under 6-12 5 years
6 months months 1 year 2 years 3 years 4 years & over
173 120 20 1 3 — 7
In my report for 1957 I referred to the scheme introduced by the
Ministry of Health for the vaccination of children against Poliomyelitis.
Initially the scheme provided for the vaccination of children
born only in the years 1947 to 1954 inclusive, but during 1958 the
scheme was extended to include children born in the years 1955 and
1956, and also recommended that a further opportunity should be
given to parents of children born in the years 1947 to 1954 to register
them if they had not hitherto accepted the offer of vaccination.
In November of the same year it was announced that the scheme
for vaccination could be further extended to include children born
in the years 1943 to 1946 inclusive. Further extensions have been
made which means that in addition to the normal priority groups of
expectant mothers and certain special groups of individuals particularly
exposed to the risk of infection, such as general medical
practitioners, vaccination is available to all persons up to the age of
40 years. The acceptance rate in the age group 26 to 40 years could
well be very much higher.
During 1960, 2.292 persons received their primary course of two
injections and 5,297 received a third injection.
The Minister has now decided that a fourth injection can be given
to children reaching school entry age and under the age of 12 years,
and also that through the General Medical Service persons over 40
years of age may, if their General Practitioner considers it desirable,
receive vaccination.
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