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Surveys and Research
During 1966 we took part in a research project initiated by
the Public Health Laboratory at Colindale. This involved
giving Gamma Globulin to contacts of Infective Hepatitis and
observing the spread of an epidemic in a school both in the
children who had received this injection, and those who had
acted as controls. This, of course was done with the cooperation
of the parents and the school authorities.
We also continued to obtain information for a National
Survey on Childhood Malignancies which in still proceeding.
This involves interviewing the parents of a child who has
died from malignant disease and filling in a lengthy questionnaire
on the case. The parent of a healthy child of the same
age and sex is interviewed and the same questionnaire filled
in. Done on a National scale over several years and covering
as many cases and controls as possible. It may be that pattern
will emerge which could help in our understanding some of the
altrological factors in childhood malignancies.
The causes of death among children of school age in Redbridge
during 1966 were:—
Accidental Death 4
Bronchopneumonia 2
Gas poisoning 1
Heart 2
Meningitis 1
Nephritis 1
Tracheitis 1
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