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Section B—Health Services.
Laboratory Facilities
No change has been made in the arrangements for laboratory examinations.
Mr. D. D. Moir, 16, Southwark Street. London, S.E.I, is the Council's
appointed Public Analyst to whom samples of food and drugs and water
are submitted. For the examination of clinical material in respect of
infectious disease, use is made of the Hospital Laboratory Services mainly
at the St. Helier Hospital. Laboratory investigation in cases of food poisoning
and the bacteriological examination of milk and water is undertaken by
the Public Health Laboratory at Epsom. The biological examination of
milk for tuberculosis is done at the Guildford Public Health Laboratory.
The following examinations were made during the year:
Faeces Specimens 101
Rectal Swabs 2
Throat Swabs 2
Water (Public Supply):
For chemical analysis 2
For bacteriological examination 6
Water (Swimming Bath):
For bacteriological examination 8
Food and Drugs:
Analysis 317
Bacteriological examination of milk 214
Bacteriological examination of ice cream 96
Bacteriological examination of other foods
for food poisoning organisms 5
Biological examination of milk 12
Vaccination and Immunisation
Schemes of vaccination and immunisation are the responsibility of
the County Council under Section 26 of the National Health Service Act.
These arrangements were extended during 1956 by the inclusion of antipoliomyelitis
vaccination. Schemes have now been formulated for vaccination
and immunisation by the County Council against the following
diseases—smallpox, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, tuberculosis and
poliomyelitis. By arrangement with the district councils local Medical
Officers of Health direct the schemes in respect of the four first mentioned
diseases.
Mantoux testing and B.C.G. vaccination against tuberculosis is at
present limited to thirteen-year-old children and is carried out under school
health service arrangements. The polio. vaccination scheme is so far
directed by the Divisional County Medical Officers. Details of the work
carried out under these schemes are given in Section F dealing with infectious
disease.
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