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Tottenham 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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(b) Third Injection
The Ministry of Health also decided that third injections should be offered
to all persons who had had two injections provided that the third injection was
given not less than seven months after the second injection. Third injections
were commenced at the beginning of October 1958 and by the end of the year
6,939 persons had received this extra protection.
PREVENTION OF ILLNESS, CARE AND AFTER CARE
(Section 28)
Recuperative Holidays
The Area health staff continued to be responsible for dealing with applications
for recuperative holidays and during 1958 177 applications were received
compared with 253 the previous year. Of these, 142 were approved.
| Total number of persons receiving two injections during the period 1st January to 31st October 1958 either from general practitionc or at clinics:- | 18,165 | ||
| Vaccinations carried out during the period 1st November to 31st December, 1958:- | |||
| No. of persons who completed a course of two injections during the period | No. of applicants not yet vaccinated with one or two injections | No. of persons who have received one injection only at any time up to 31.12.58 | |
| Children born in years 1943-1958 | 1591 | 1540 | 601 |
| Young persons born in years 1933-1942 | 494 | 102 | 119 |
| Expectant mothers | 136 | 15 | 38 |
| General practitioners and families | 10 | - | - |
| Ambulance staff and families | 1 | - | - |
| Hospital staff, medical students and their families vaccinated by general practitioners | 25 | ||
| Totals | 2257 | 1657 | 758 |
| In addition, 1,450 doses of vaccine were issued to general practitioners for first injections, but it will not be known into which of the above categories these fall until completed record cards have been received. | |||