[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough].

  • Lambeth (London, England)
Date:
[1958]
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    34 BOROUGH OP LAMBETH IMMUNISATION - 1957 Completed cases Welfare Centres and Nurseries Genera] Practitioners Total Under 5 years 5 - 14 years Under 5 years 5 - 14 years Diphtheria prophylaxis only 117 69 82 11 279 Combined antigen Diphtheria and Whooping Cough 1,217 22 290 13 1,542 Triple antigen Diphtheria, Whooping Cough and Tetanus 957 6 178 10 1,151 Diphtheria Boosting doses - all ages 712 218 930 Whooping Cough - all ages only (completed cases) 23 39 62 Smallpox There were no cases of this disease in the Borough during the year, but in May an incident occurred which showed how easily the infection might have been introduced. A message was received from the Medical Officer of Health of another Metropolitan Borough to the effect that he had received notification that a German business man who had stayed in his area about a fortnight before had been diagnosed as suffering from smallpox on arrival in Hamburg. The sheets from his bed had been washed at a Lambeth laundry. A visit to the laundry elicited the information that only three persons handled the laundry before washing. As the time had already passed when vaccination would have been effective it was decided to keep an unobtrusive watch on the three persons concerned until the recognised period of surveillance had expired. Fortunately no signs of infection developed.