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Hillingdon 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hillingdon]
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Personal Health Services
DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION
The Borough has been free from diphtheria since 1949.
While the disease is no longer epidemic in this country, small outbreaks do occur, and I cannot
over-emphasise the constant need for immunisation in order to keep it under control.
It will be noted from the following table that since large-scale immunisation was instigated diphtheria has almost disappeared.
| Year | Deaths | Cases | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales | Hillingdon area | England and Wales | Hillingdon area | |
| 1940 | 2,480 | 8 | 46,281 | 126 |
| 1945 | 722 | — | 25,246 | 1 |
| 1950 | 49 | — | 962 | — |
| 1955 | 13 | — | 155 | — |
| 1960 | 5 | — | 49 | — |
| 1965 | — | — | 26 | — |
| 1966 | 5 | — | 19 | — |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | — |
| 1968 | 1 | — | 15 | — |
POLIOMYELITIS IMMUNISATION
The following table shows the number of immunisations carried out during the year under arrangements made by the Council.
| Year of Birth | Primary Courses | Reinforcing Doses | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salk Injection | Sabin Oral | Total | Salk Injection | Sabin Oral | Total | |
| 1968 | — | 229 | — | — | — | |
| 1967 | 64 | 1,988 | 2,052 | 350 | 370 | |
| 1966 | 487 | 493 | 12 | 274 | 286 | |
| 1965 | — | 132 | 132 | 7 | 1,114 | 1,121 |
| 1961-64 | 10 | 386 | 396 | 48 | 1,664 | 1,712 |
| Others under age 16 | 77 | 79 | 11 | 227 | 238 | |
| Totals | 3,299 | 3,381 | 98 | 3,629 | 3,727 | |