[Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Sutton Coldfield Borough.

Sutton Coldfield (England). Borough Council.

Date:: 1958

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Credit: [Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Sutton Coldfield Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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occurs, and certainly confers a large degree of immunity, which is more than adequate to justify the procedure. During the year 986 children were immunised as against 916 in 1957 and 50% of the child population 0—14 years of age have now been immunised. Whooping Cough Immunisation Number and Percentages of Cases Inoculated for the Past Ten Years GRAPH No. 3 Pneumonia There was a slight increase in the cases of pneumonia notified during the year, there being 28 as compared with 20 in 1957, and 16 deaths occurred the majority of which were in the age group 65 years and over. Poliomyelitis During 1958 two cases of paralytic poliomyelitis were notified, in a man of 24 years and a girl aged 19 years. The man was left with only slight weakness of the right hand and arm, but the girl still has some considerable residual paralysis of the trunk muscles.