[Report 1957] / School Medical Officer of Health, Breconshire County Council.

  • Breconshire (Wales). County Council.
Date:
1957
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Credit: [Report 1957] / School Medical Officer of Health, Breconshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The record cards of i*egistered children, for whom the General Medical Practitioners have agreed to vaccination, were sent to them and the vaccine was allotted in the proportion of the number of children to be done by the Authority’s Medical Officers and the Medical Practitioners. The scheme has worked well and] the General Medical Practitioners have co-operated in the matter of the distribution of vaccine. As a result of Circular 6/57, dated 14th May, 1957, from the Welsh Board of Health, the vaccination of children con- tinued throughout the Summer months and further groups of children were registered, consents being received in respect of 3,380 children. Again on the 19th November, 1957, Circular 16/57, proposed that the scheme should be extended to include children up to the age of 15 years and also expectant and nursing mothers, following increased supplies of British Vaccine, which was also being augmented by Salk Vaccine being imported. From this date the Ministry no longer directed which group should receive priority other than to direct that those already registered in the first Registration of Children born in 1947-1954 should firstly be completed and that expectant mothers would at all times remain a priority group. At the end of the year the Registers were re-opened and parents of any children over six months and under 15 years of age were requested to register their children for vaccination by consenting for this to be done.. They were also, at this stage given the opportunity of having the child vaccinated by the General Medical Practitioner or by the County Council's Medical Officer, with either British or Salk Vaccine. The work of immunisation against Poliomyelitis has pio- gressed well in this County though it has, of course, functioned at the expense of the Routine School Medical Inspections. The following information as at the end of 1951 will give some indication of the position: — No of children given two injections during the year— 2255. No. of children who had been given one injection bv the end of the year— 244. No of children waiting to be vaccinated at end of year—3391.