[Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottinghamshire County Council.

  • Nottinghamshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1959
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Credit: [Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottinghamshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Protection of Children against Tuberculosis Under the arrangements for the annual X-ray examination of the staff of County Council establishments who are working in close contact with groups of children, one hundred and forty-eight persons in employ¬ ment at Day Nurseries or at Children’s Homes were examined by mass radiography during 1959. In addition, four hundred and twenty-four persons taking up employ¬ ment of this nature with the County Council had a chest X-ray examin¬ ation during the year ; two hundred and fifty-nine by miniature radio¬ graphy, and one hundred and sixty-five by large films for which the County Council paid the agreed fee to hospitals and Chest Physicians. B.C.G. Vaccination of School Children and Students The organisation and conduct of this work is undertaken locally by District Medical Officers of Health, acting on agreed terms as agents for the County Council, and where necessary assistance is given by the County Council’s medical and nursing staffs with experience in this work. In accordance with Ministry of Health Circular 7/59 dated 30th April, 1959, the County Council agreed to extend their arrangements for offering B.C.G. vaccination to thirteen year old school children by the inclusion of children of fourteen years of age and upwards still at school and students attending Universities, Teacher Training Colleges, or other similar establishments of further education. Due, however, to their pre-occupation with the poliomyelitis vaccination programme, the medical staff concerned were generally unable to undertake this work during the major portion of the year. In consequence, the following summary of their returns for 1959 shews a decline in the total numbers dealt with as compared with the previous year :— U nder 14 vrs. Over 14 yrs. T otal No. of children skin tested 2,188 1,689 3,877 No. found to be Mantoux positive 280 392 672 No. found to be Mantoux negative 1.875 U247 3,122 No. who were vaccinated 1,861 1,226 3.087 With the reduction of the waiting lists for poliomyelitis vaccination towards the end of 1959, however. District Medical Officers of Health were again turning their attention to the resumption of this work and a start with the work was made in the only two County Districts where it had not previously been undertaken.