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Attendances at the Council's Clinics:—
Expectant and Nursing Mothers 16
School Children 663
Others 1,929
Recuperative Holidays
During the year, following recommendations from the doctors concerned, arrangements were
made for 51 persons to be admitted to recuperative holiday homes. Some applications were withdrawn,
and 43 holidays were arranged mainly for elderly people.
The usual recuperative holiday lasts a fortnight. In eleven cases the 'full cost' was paid, and
the remainder were assessed according to their financial circumstances.
Co-operation in Research Projects
During the year the medical and nursing staff have been asked to co-operate in another followup
of the children originally included in the National Birthday Trust survey of certain children born
in 1958. As each interview took about one hour, a considerable amount of time was involved, and it
will be interesting to learn of the final results of this research.
A shorter task demanded of the same staff was a trial of three different kinds of 'triple'
(Diphtheria/Tetanus/Whooping Cough) prophylactic for the Medical Research Council, in order to
assess the adverse reactions, if any, consequent upon different methods of manufacture. This has
provided useful information and should lead to the production of better immunisation material.
Details regarding the routine immunisation and vaccination of children will be found on page
32 but it is interesting to note in passing that the diphtheria immunisation rate for children under
5 years is 75%.
INVESTIGATION OF MEASLES VACCINES
Measles Protection Trial, 1964 and 1965
In 1964 the then Middlesex County Council agreed, together with certain other Local
Authorities, to take part in a trial of measles vaccines under the co-ordination of the Medical
Research Council.
In September of that year measles vaccination was offered to 4,500 children in Area 8 (the
present Borough of Hillingdon) born between November, 1962, and December, 1963, inclusive.
Two thousand two hundred and fifty-nine acceptances were received:
(a) 700 children were offered vaccination with killed, followed by live, vaccine;
(b) 750 children were offered live vaccine alone;
(c) 750 children remained unvaccinated as a control group;
(d) 59 acceptances were withdrawn.
By the end of November, 1964, a total of 844 children had been vaccinated in accordance with
(a) and (b) above.
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