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The Scheme for innoculation against poliomyelitis inaugurated by Middlesex
County Health Department in 1956, continued during 1960.
Details of the year's work are as follows:-

By the end of the year 9,217 children 16 years of age and under had obtained
two injections.
Puerperal Pyrexia
The number of notifications of puerperal pyrexia was 67 in 1960 compared
with 70 in 1959. There was no severe infection, these puerperal pyrexia cases
were mild and mostly notified under the statutory requirement to notify any temperature
rise to over 100° after confinement in the immediate post-natal period.
Smallpox
In October, 1960, notification was received that a case of smallpox had
occurred in an air line passenger from abroad. Before becoming ill he had unfor
tunately visited many places and made many contacts. These had to be vaccinated
if necessary and followed up during the period of quarantine.
Five contacts (one a school child) lived in the Borough and two other schoolchild
contacts, although resident in Acton, attended local schools. No case
of illness developed however.
Vaccination against Smallpox

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