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Richmond upon Thames 1967

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond upon Thames]

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The Ministry of Health has encouraged such liaison between local authority,
medical and health staff and registered medical practitioners contracting to give services
through the National Health Service.

Health Visiting

Cases visited by health visitorsNumber of cases
1Total number of cases13,343
2Children born in 19672,971
3Children born in 19662,943
4Children born in 1962—654,656
5Total number of children in lines 2 — 410,570
6Persons aged 65 or over868
7Number included in line 6 who were visited at the special request of a G.P. or hospital128
8Mentally disordered persons50
9Number included in line 8 who were visited at the special request of a G.P. or hospital11
10Persons, excluding maternity cases, discharged from hospital
(other than mental hospitals)41
11Number included in line 10 who were visited at th; special request of a G.P. or hospital32
12Number of tuberculous households visited6
13Number of households visited on account of other infectious diseases11
14Other cases992
15Number of tuberculous households visited by tuberculosis visitors332

VACCINATION AND IMMUNISATION
In circular 3/67, dated 31st January, 1967, the Ministry of Health introduced a
scheme for the payment of fees to family doctors for the vaccination and immunisation
of patients on their lists undertaken as part of general medical services in pursuance
of public policy.
The scheme which came into effect on 1st April, 1967, made Executive Councils
responsible for the payment of records submitted by family doctors in respect of
vaccination and immunisation procedures carried out instead of Local Authorities.
In the circular, the Ministry expressed the hope that local health authorities would
send to family doctors details of their patients who had been immunised at the authority's
clinics. In order to achieve this liaison a specially designed personal record card,
enclosed in a cellophane envelope, was issued to everyone immunised at the clinics and
parents were requested to show the card whenever their family doctor was consulted.
In addition at the end of the year arrangements were being made to send copies of
vaccination and immunisation clinic records to family doctors.
The tables on page 31 show the numbers of children under 16 who completed
vaccination or immunisation procedures during 1967.
The "take-up" of all available types of immunisation has continued to be satisfactory
and the figures given in Table I on page 31 are generally comparable with last
year's figures.
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