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Surbiton 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]
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DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION.
Treatments.
Completed. Incompleted.
Children treated at clinics. 445 -
Done by General Practitioners. 295
740
The division into children of school age and those under is:-
Reinforcement doses. Treatments
Completed. Incompleted
Children of school age 356 14
Children under school age 93 726
449 740
The following table shows the number of immunisations carried out
during the years 1940 to 1949:-
Year.
Immunisations.
Reinforcements.
1940
187
-
1941
2,516
-
1942
1,547
-
1943
709
-
1944
196
-
1945
326
-
1946
696
-
1947
482
104
1948
812
148
1949
740
449
VACCINATION.
The number of vaccinations carried out in the Borough by the
General Practitioners and myself for the year is as follows:-
Primary. Re-vaccination.
Medical Officer of Health. 170 19
General Practitioners. 314 94
484 113
Total 597
GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES
IN THE AREA.
The hospitals are now under the control of the Kingston Group
Hospital Management Committee (South West Metropolitan Region).
Laboratory facilities.
Pathological and bacteriological examinations were made for the
Corporation by the Public Health Laboratory Service, Epsom, by the
Clinical Research Association, London and Victoria Hospital, Kingston.
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