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Investigations confirmed the diagnosis. Fortunately, the patient's
condition improved rapidly and she made a complete recovery.
IMMUNIZATION.
Schemes for giving protective inoculations against various diseases
are administered from the Divisional Health Office, and are carried
out at the Surrey County Council Clinics.
Diphtheria and Whooping Cough.
The majority of infants are inoculated against these diseases.
Efforts are made to complete the course of injections before the end
of the first year, but the policy of using single antigens during the
warmer months makes this very difficult.
The last recorded case of diphtheria was in 1944 and the incidence
and severity of Whooping Cough have been considerably reduced in
recent years.
Tetanus.
Protection against tetanus is being requested by an increasing
number of parents. It is given combined with other antigens in the
winter quarters and singly or combined with diphtheria formol Toxoid
in summertime.
Smallpox.
70.2% of babies were vaccinated during the year. This is still not
high enough, but is a better figure than in many parts of the country.
Poliomyelitis.
In order to encourage those eligible to be vaccinated against poliomyelitis
a "Polio Week" was held during the period 16th to 21st May.
Every available form of publicity was used including the local press,
the B.B.C., local cinemas, posters, and Civil Defence loud-speaker
van.
Afternoon and evening vaccination centres were set up in places
rod at times thought to be convenient to the public.
The local Civil Defence organization was of great assistance by
providing a Mobile Unit, a loud-speaker van, and many euthusiastic
volunteers, who did much to persuade members of the public to accept
vaccination.