Report of the Commission of Public Health to the Minister of Public Health / Department of Public Health, Victoria.

  • Victoria. Commission of Public Health
Date:
[1960]
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Credit: Report of the Commission of Public Health to the Minister of Public Health / Department of Public Health, Victoria. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7 Trainees Tuberculin nd of contacts urveys of school children, of in schools follows;- National institutions are sum: service aarised NUMBER MANTOUX TESTED (with iO.ll c.c. 11:1000 O.T. NUMBER | B.C.O. VACCINATED r ' «-.- j NUMBER j OP 5NATURAL jREACTOR i f h—----- ! /0 3 NUMBER ! °E i * REACTORS i /0 tPREVIOUSLY j !VACCINATED ! 1 METROPOLITAN “Schools * Children of 11 years and over | 28,324 1 25,341 f i 1,511 i I i 5.33 j : 1,472 ! 5.19 f t ---4- BALLARAT AREA SCHOOLS * “ Children of 11 years and over ! I 4,853 4,473 260 5.36 S 1 120 ! 2.47 ! | > COUNTRY SCHOOLS* Children of ll j 6,120 ; years and over ! 5,836 191 3.12 -j 93 j 1.52 i national service TETIWHeS (ARMY) 7.424 Males 17-24 years i 1,715 470 13.73 i 1,239 | 36.19 . _1_ MISCELLANEOUS CROUPS COMMON- WEALTH SCHOLARS All ages j 1 3,368 | 1,083 ] . i 387 11.49 ! 1,898 56.35 CONTACTS IN SCHOOLS AND INSTITUTIONS All ages T i ) 1 671 j 102 52 7.75 1 1 133 19.82 1 TOTALS; 46,760 j 38,550 j ! i • 2,8Tl j - ; —r 4,955 ' 1 (* In some schools children approaching their 11th birthday were included). The discovery of five cases of active pulmonary tuberculosis can be directly attributed to tuberculin testing of contacts in schools. The abandonment of National Service Training will preclude any further opportunity of Mantoux testing a group of young men and comparing year by year the reactor percentages. The table hereunder shows the results for seven years. Nor the first five years trainees were in all Service arms, for 1958 and 1959 Army trainees only are included. YEAR NUMBER TESTED NATURAL REACTORS POST VACCINATION REACTORS NUMBER 1 I fo I r~ NUMBER | i * 1953 8,532 . ■ i i 1,777 20.83 —p if 1954 6,277 1,237 19.70 366 5.82 1955 8,863 1,518 17.12 1,120 12.64 1956 8,360 1,180 i 14.12 1,690 j 20.20 1957 4,077 I 569 13.96 1,538 37.33 1958 3, 375 432 12.80 1 1,146 j 33.96 1959 3,424 470 ! j 13.73 1,239 j 36.19
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