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MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS - FEES
30.3 On 1st April, 1967 the Minister of Health introduced a new scheme for the
payment of fees to general medical practitioners for vaccination carried out by them for
patients on their lists. Under this scheme, general practitioners send the vaccination
records to the Inner London Executive Council, who arrange for the appropriate fees to
be paid before passing the records to the local health authorities concerned. The new
scheme does not cover payment for records of vaccination given by general practitioners
to their private patients (those not treated under the provisions of Part IV of the National
Health Service Act, 1946). These records are still required by the local health authorities
and it was agreed to continue paying family doctors 5s. for each completed record
of an approved course of vaccination relating to children under the age of 16 years who
were treated as private patients.
VACCINE DISTRIBUTION
30.4 From 12th June, 1967, the responsibility for the distribution of smallpox vaccine
to hospitals and general practitioners was transferred from the Public Health Laboratory
Service to the local health authorities. In Camden, general practitioners may collect
smallpox lymph from any one of the borough's eleven maternal and child welfare centres
or from Bidborough House. Hospitals are supplied from Bidborough House. If requested,
lymph is sent by post.
VACCINATION AGAINST MEASLES
30.5.1 In accordance with instructions received from the Ministry of Health,
ments were made in 1968 to offer vaccination against measles to all children between
the ages of 1 and 16 years who had neither been immunised nor had a natural attack of
measles. As the amount of vaccine to meet all possible demands was not initially
available the programme was phased, as requested by the Ministry. From 1st May, 1968,
vaccination against measles was introduced for susceptible children between the ages
of 4 and 7 years, and also for children aged 1 to 7 years attending day nurseries or living
in residential establishments. From July, the programme was extended to cover all
susceptible children between the ages of 1 and 7 years, and from November it was
further extended to include all susceptible children up to and including the age of 15
years.
B.C.G. VACCINATIONS
30.7 The routine tuberculin testing of 13 year old children continued and negative
reactors to the test were offered vaccination with B.C.G. 1,815 children were tested
and 1,675 vaccinated in 1968, compared with 1,745 and 1,435 respectively in 1967. In
addition, 91 students at 2 colleges for further education were skin-tested and 56 of
these (40 in 1967) were vaccinated with B.C.G.
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YELLOW FEVER VACCINATIONS
30.6 The Council continued to provide yellow fever vaccinations free of charge at
the Hospital for Tropical Diseases. This service is not confined to Camden residents
and 6,609 persons were vaccinated during 1968. In 1967, the number was 7,257.