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(b) B.C.G. Vaccination
School children - 13 years
Number of such children on rolls of Hackney Schools 2,726
Number for whom parental consent for vaccination was received 1,903
Number Mantoux tested 1,806
Number of positive reactors 186
Number of positive reactors who were subsequently X-rayed 174
Number of negative reactors, all of whom were subsequently vaccinated 1,620
Tuberculosis Contacts
Number vaccinated by Chest Physicians 178
(c) Poliomyelitis Vaccination
Number of children vaccinated at Welfare Centres 3,836
Number of children vaccinated by general medical practitioners 250

SECTION 27 (Ambulance Service) The two ambulance stations in the Borough
are sited at Homerton Grove, E, 9 and Paragon Road. E, 9.
SECTION 28 (Prevent ion of illness, care and after-care). Up to 1957 the
Borough was divided into two areas for the diagnosis, treatment and after-care
of tuberculosis -
(a) the area served by the London Chest Hospital Clinic, and
(b) the area served by the Metropolitan Hospital Chest Clinic;
but in April part of the area served by the Metropolitan Hospital Chest Clinic
was transferred to the Shoreditch Chest Clinic,
There is a Tuberculosis After-Care Committee for each area and the Medical
Officer of Health is a member of the original two Committees (The Hackney and
Bethnal Green and the Hackney and Stoke Newington Tuberculosis Care Committees).
The Borough Council is also represented on both of these Committees, At
present there is no direct Hackney representation on the Shoreditch Chest
Clinic After-Care Committee, but a Member of the Metropolitan Chest Clinic
After-Care Committee has been seconded to it.
The funds at the disposal of these Committees are used for providing
various amenities for tuberculous persons, and for helping to tide them over
financial difficulties; relatives are, when necessary, assisted with fares to
enable them to visit patients undergoing sanatorium treatment,
SECTION 29 (Domestic help). This service is complementary to the various
medical services and the cases dealt with during the year were as follows: -
Maternity 52
Tuberculosis 94
Chronic sick and aged persons 2,239
General 454