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Poliomyelitis
The Poliomyelitis vaccination scheme, introduced in January 1956
continued, within the prescribed age groups, throughout 1958. The
following is a summary of the persons who had been vaccinated by the
end of the year:
Two Three
Injections Injections
Children born 1943—1958 3900 1990
Young persons born 1933—1942 278 2
Expectant Mothers 166 3
General Practitioner and Ambulance Staff 42 -
4386 1995
School Clinics
With the coming into operation of the 1944 Education Act, the
Medical Officer of Health was appointed in September, 1945, Divisional
Medical Officer for the Beddington and Wallington half of the MidEastern
Divisional Executive of the County of Surrey. School clinics
continue to be conducted at The Grange Mansion, Wallington, Rochester
Road and Phoenix Flats, Carshalton. The services provided at these
clinics are now general medical inspection and treatment, dental treatment,
speech therapy and physiotherapy.
Cleansing of Persons
During 1958 the Corporation Cleansing Station, situated near the
Grange Mansion, continued to provide facilities for cleansing infested
persons.
The general standard of cleanliness, as shown by the examinations
conducted by Health Visitors in schools and clinics, is at an extremely
high level, a very small number of people having been treated. It is
now rare to find a child in school suffering from pediculosis of the head
or body.
Special attention paid by Health Visitors and Public Health Inspectors
during their routine visits and through their contact with the public at
the Town Hall, together with a higher standard of personal hygiene,
makes real uncleanliness a rare condition.
During the year 6 treatments for scabies were carried out at the Cleansing
Station.
LABORATORY FACILITIES
The Corporation's arrangements for the examination of swabs, sputa
and other pathological material continue as heretofore.
During 1958, H. Amphlett Williams, Esq., Ph.D.(Lond.), A.C.G.F.C.,
F.R.I.C., Public Analyst, 1 Southwark Street, S.E.I, continued the
arrangement made in 1946 for the examination of milk, water and
ice-cream.
In general, pathological specimens, are sent to the Pathological
Laboratories at St. Helier Hospital. Samples of milk and water are
submitted for bacteriological examination to the Ministry of Health
laboratories at Epsom, reports being received free of charge under the
National Health Service Act, 1946.
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