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It will be appreciated that it is not strictly correct to compare the
number of immunisations with the number of births in a particular year as this
takes no account of removals out of and in to the Area, but as no reliable up
to date figures of child population of these ages are available, these have
been used to enable some comparison of one year with another.
It will be seen that the new policy for immunising infants under 1 has
had the effect of increasing the percentage of immunised children born in 1953
as against preceding years. Reference to children born during 1954 has been
excluded as it was only possible for a small proportion to have been immunised
by the end of the year.
Boosting Immunisation in School Children
The scheme to secure that all children receive a boosting injection
against diphtheria during their first year at school which was introduced at
the same time as the arrangements for dealing with children under 1, has had
satisfactory results as can be seen by the following table:-

The increase has been achieved in spite of a considerable fall in the
birth rate in the years 1947 to 1950.
The opportunity is taken when doctors visit the schools to give boosting
injections, to give primary immunisations to any unimmunised child whose
parents agree.
Summary
The following table shows the total number of immunisations of all age
groups carried out during 1954:-