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Infective Jaundice
In March, an outbreak of infective jaundice occurred in a primary
school in the Borough, 11 children and one member of the staff
being infected. The other children in the class mainly concerned were
offered protective inoculation in the form of gamma globulin and it
is interesting to note that no further cases occurred thereafter.
Winter Vomiting
In mid-October, 14 children in a Primary School in the Borough
suffered attacks of sickness. Investigations were carried out and the
outbreak quickly ended.
Report on Epidemiological Survey in a Girls
High School
In August, 1969, a pupil of a Girls' High School was found to
have pulmonary tuberculosis; she was already under observation as a
previous contact by the chest clinic.
It was decided that epidemiological survey of the pupils and the
staff was indicated within three months.
The parents of the 701 girls attending the school were approached
and 682 of them agreed that their girls should be included for skin
testing and chest X-ray if necessary.
The skin tests and readings were carried out in November. 164
of those with negative results were given B.C.G. vaccination and the
mobile mass X-ray unit visited the school at the beginning of
December.
Two hundred other girls who had left school at the end of the
summer term were contacted and were advised to attend for X-ray,
along with those in the survey, who had a positive skin test or had
been absent for the skin test or the reading.
A total of 320 girls were X-rayed; 318 were normal and two were
referred to their doctors for non-tuberculous conditions. 55 of a total
of 76 teaching and ancillary staff were X-rayed. All results were
satisfactory.
Those girls still attending the school who had positive skin tests,
although they had not previously had B.C.G. vaccination and had
failed to attend for X-ray, were followed up individually.
2. Prophylactic Measures
1. Poliomyelitis Vaccination.
Vaccination of school children against Poliomyelitis continued
during the year. The actual number vaccinated or receiving reinforcing
doses during 1969 was as follows:—
Number of children vaccinated 82
Number of children given re-inforcing doses 2,000
No case of Poliomyelitis occurred in the Borough in 1969.
2. Diphtheria/ Tetanus Immunisation.
Number of children given immunisation 85
Number of children given re-inforcing doses 1,946
No case of Diphtheria or Tetanus occurred among school children,
or otherwise, in this area but the importance of immunisation for all
children is in no way diminished.
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