[Report 1968] / School Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.
- Cumberland (England). County Council.
- Date:
- 1968
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1968] / School Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![or these 770 were primary vaccinations and 2,622 were re- intorcements. As with Diphtheria and Tetanus protection some ground will have to be made up in 1969. In the prevention of diphtheria and tetanus the numbers of school children protected m 196« were as follows; Diphtheria; Primary courses Reinforcing injection 1 etanus: 530 (1,130) 4,047 (4,930) Primary courses 5^0 (1,221) Reinforcing injection 4,166 (s’llS) (1 he figures in brackets refer to the previous year). 1 hese figures, as representative of one year group” due or different stages of protection, are not whoily latisFactoR nd 1 have indicated above that the measles vaccination pro- howTe^r ?har should be remembered, ^ m J exceptions, children who have missed a piotective injection in 1968 which they were due, will have the opportunity of receiving this in 1969. Thus the necessitv IS to make up the leeway in the current year. ^ The new schedule of immunisations which superseded Its predecessor during 1968 will in due course alte^r some^ what the pattern of immunisation work in schools When inked to the County Council computer wS will brZ lorward appointments at the prescribed intervals for afi worK wiij actually be done in schools. This will of course ake severa] years to gradually come about, and’meanwhde the commencement of the computer based progr™mnJe has postponed to mid 1969 aUhe earliest P^ogrl^t^-ra^i “ enf Infectious diseases children nown“in' iiiiuren is snown in the table on page 75 The lower numbers ot measles cases in 1968 compared with the previous](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2913268x_0077.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
