[Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Gillingham (Kent) Borough.

Gillingham (Kent, England). Borough Council.

Date:: 1958

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Credit: [Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Gillingham (Kent) Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Poliomyelitis Vaccination, 1958—continued. Year of Birth 195 8 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 1952 1951 1950 1949 1945 1947 1946 1945 1944 Others Given two injections 75 664 818 720 782 688 755 678 439 464 47i 538 933 774 738 905 Given third injection 7 47 54 44 27 40 38 40 40 39 34 9 3 11 Total 10,452 430 Puerperal Pyrexia 4 cases were notified. All patients recovered. Ophthalmia Neonatorum 4 cases were notified. All patients recovered. Enteric Fever Group No cases were notified. Dysentery No cases were notified. Anterior Poliomyelitis 5 cases were notified. There was 1 death, a boy aged 6 years. Pneumonia 50 cases were notified. Measles and Whooping Cough Number of Deaths cases notified Measles ... ... ... 460 — Whooping Cough ... ... 40 — Disinfections Houses disinfected by Formalin spraying in connection with tuberculosis cases numbered 4 compared with 52 in the previous year.