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 Hounslow]
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Children born in 1968 and
vaccinated by 31st December
1970
Whooping
cough
%
Diphtheria
%
Poliomyelitis
%
Smallpox
(children
under
2)
%
Hounslow
75
83
83
32
England
79
81
79
35
General
The local authority does not provide
vaccination against yellow fever, cholera,
typhoid or paratyphoid fevers and persons
desiring such protection should consult
their own doctors.
Yellow fever vaccination is carried out
at the following centres
Hospital for Tropical Diseases 4 St Pancras
Way London N W 1 Tel: 01 387 4411 Ext 137
Medical Department Unilever House Blackfriars
E C 4 Tel: 01 353 7474 Ext 2841
55 Great Cumberland Place W 1 Tel: 01 262 6456.
Patients are seen by appointment only. No
charge is made
Health Centre Grange Road Kingston Surrey
Tel: 01 546 7261
Cholera, enteric fever and typhus
vaccination is available by appointment only
at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases 4 St
Pancras Way N W 1 Tel: 01 387 4411 Ext 137.
Anthrax vaccine is available from the
Central Public Health Laboratory Colindale
Avenue N W 9. Tel 01 205 704.
B C G Vaccination
Details of B C G vaccination given are shown
below.
Contacts at chest clinic:
Number skin tested 163
Number found positive 26
Number found negative 131
Number vaccinated 156
School children and students:
Number skin tested 1,534
Number found positive 258
Number found negative 1,203
Number vaccinated 1,025
Services provided for the London Borough of Hounslow by other Authorities
North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital
Board 40 Eastbourne Terrace W 2.
South West Middlesex Group Hospital
Management Committee West Middlesex
Hospital lsleworth
The following are the main
West Middlesex Hospital
Twickenham Road lsleworth
Tel: 01-560 2121
Cases Admitted Approximate no of
available staffed beds
Mainly acute 865
25