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Practising nurses not working in hospitals.
Public Health staff who may come into contact with
poliomyelitis cases.
The families of the above groups.
Expectant mothers who are particularly urged to be
vaccinated as early as possible in pregnancy and such
requests are dealt with as priorities.
Persons going to visit or reside in a country outside
Europe, other than Canada or the United States of America.
In the latter part of the year supplies of Salk vaccine became
severely restricted when the Ministry of Health decided to introduce
Oral Sabin vaccine. This very much curtailed the poliomyelitis
vaccination programme, and it was not until early 1962 that the Sabin
vaccine became available and allowed the doctors and the clinics to
catch up on arrears.
In June 1961 the Public Health Laboratory Service commenced a
one-year study of the incidence of poliomyelitis and other viruses
in the faeces of normal children below 5 years of age with the object
of obtaining more information as to the presence of these infections
and to see what changes have taken place as a result of the
widespread use of polio vaccine.
We are co-operating in this survey by arranging for and
collecting fire specimens per week so that by the end of the period
some 260 children in this Borough will have been checked.
FOOD POISONING.
There were eleven confirmed cases notified by general medical
practitioners, the causative organisms were identified as shown
below;-
S. Newport 5 cases
S. Typhi-murium and Staph. Aureus 2 cases
S. Typhi-murium 3 cases
Staphylococci Aureus 1 case
The ages of the eleven persons were as follows:-
Adults 4
14 years 1
6 " 1
3 " 2
2 " 1
1 year 4 months 1
6 weeks 1
The five cases of S. Newport were members of one family who were
almost certainly infected by the consumption of a chicken in which
^composition had commenced.
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