Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond]
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Health Visiting
Cases visited by health visitors | Number of cases | |
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1 | Total number of cases | 12,488 |
2 | Children, horn in 1969 | 2,751 |
3 | ' Children born in 1968 | 2,848 |
4 | Children born in 1964-67 | 4,154 |
5 | Total number of children in lines 2 — 4 | 9,753 |
6 | Persons aged 65 or over | 1,251 |
7 | Number included in line 6 who were visited at the special request of a G.P. or hospital | 611 |
8 | Mentally disordered persons | 67 |
9 | Number included in line 8 who were visited ait the special request of a G.P. or hospital | 31 |
10 | Persons, excluding maternity cases, discharged from hospital (other than mental hospitals) | 72 |
11 | Number included in line 10 who were visited at the special request of a G.P. or hospital | 41 |
12 | Number of tuberculous households visited | 1 |
13 | Number of households visited on account of other infectious diseases | 7 |
14 | Other cases | 1,065 |
15 | Number of tuberculous households visited by tuberculosis visitor | |
201 |
VACCINATION AND IMMUNISATION
Table 1. Immunisation against Diphtheria/Whooping Cough/Tetanus/Poliomyelitis/ Measles (separately or combined).
Type of Vaccine | YEAR OF BIRTH | Others Under 16 | Total | |||||
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1969 | 1968 | 1967 | 1966 | 1962/65 | ||||
PRIMARY COURSE | DIPHTHERIA | 195 | 680 | 41 | 9 | 15 | 20 | 960 |
WHOOPING COUGH | 193 | 664 | 38 | 4 | 4 | — | 903 | |
TETANUS | 195 | 680 | 41 | 10 | 20 | 164 | 1110 | |
POLIOMYELITIS | 176 | 733 | 60 | 16 | 32 | 30 | 1047 | |
MEASLES | — | 583 | 361 | 182 | 285 | 19 | 1430 | |
RE-INFORCING DOSES | DIPHTHERIA | 7 | 498 | 808 | 114 | 1498 | 469 | 3394 |
WHOOPING COUGH TETANUS | 6 7 | 434 497 | 644 812 | 60 120 | 235 1516 | 35 685 | 1414 3637 | |
POLIOMYELITIS | 6 | 518 | 631 | 123 | 1573 | 477 | 3328 |