[Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Birmingham.

  • Birmingham (England). Council.
Date:
1952
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Credit: [Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Birmingham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tioners are carrying it out concurrently with diphtheria immunisation on a small scale as shown by the following annual totals of record cards received in the Health Department :— 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 50 417 349 713 745 The age at immunisation is very rarely earlier than six months, and usually not later than 18 months, as the records for 1952 show. Age 0— 5 months 6—11 months 12—17 months 18—23 months 24—29 months Numbers immunised in age groups 2 515 180 37 11 745 Vaccination against Smallpox. Parents are advised by health visitors to obtain this protection for their children and leaflets on these lines are handed by the Registrar to persons registering births. The value of vaccination is also frequently explained in lectures to school children, and adult groups. Vaccination among Birmingham children is carried out by general practitioners. 10. AMBULANCE SERVICE Volume of Work. During 1952 the Ambulance Service handled a total of 301,131 patients compared with 276,896 patients in 1951. The work of the Service falls into three main sections and the figures for the two years are divided between those three sections as follows :— 1951 1952 Removal Service (Main Ambulance Service) Hospital Car Service (operated by the British Red Cross Society and handling 254,370 277,900 removal cases) Accident Service (Ambulances operated from Fire Stations and manned by fire- 9,700 9,550 men) 12,826 13,681 276,896 301,131 Removal Service. The work of the Ambulance Removal Service has continued to increase. The figures for 1951 gave promise of a tendency to arrest the steep upward trend which had been seen since the introduc- tion of the National Health Service in July, 1948, but the 1952 figures show a high rate of increase again. Appendix A which follows shows figures for the last four years divided according to the type of cases handled. It will be seen that the main, and constant, increase has been in Clinic cases and Infectious