[Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Worsley U.D.C.

  • Worsley (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1956
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Credit: [Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Worsley U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Immunisation against Diphtheria, Wnooping Cough and Tetanus (Continued) These protective injections are given free of charge at Clinics and by general practitioners at their surgeries0 The County Council pays a fee to general practitioners for sending in a record card containing particulars of these iramunisations. The following table shows the number of children who were immunised during the year: — -- Primary Reinforcing Whooping cough only 65 3 Diphtheria only 9 182 Diphtheria and Whooping Cough combined 21 11 Diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus triple 234 3 Total diphtheria immunisations 264 196 included above Poll cmyelltis Under arrangements made by the County Council in accordance with instructions from the Ministry of Health, parents of children born in the years 1947 - 1954 inclusive were imrited to register their children for vaccination with the newly produced British vaccine against poliomyelitis. 1686 Worsley children were so registered, and by the end of the year the vaccination of 209 of them (by two injections) had been completed„ B. Co 0. Vaccination against Tuberculosis Under arrangements made by the County Council, parents of children about to leave school may be invited to give their consent to their children being skin-tested for susceptibility to tuberculosis, and to their being vaccinated against tuberculosis with B. C. G. vaccine if the skin-test shawo them to be susceptible to this disease. NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1948 Under Section 47 of this Act (amended in 1951) a Local Authority mav apply to a Court for an Order for the compulsory removal to hospital or Part III accommodation of persons in need of care and attention, which they are unable to provide for themselves and which they are not receiving from other persons. No case arose during the year in which it was necessary to take action under this section.