HC Deb 15 October 1942 vol 383 cc1778-9W
Mr. Brooke

asked the Minister of Health whether he can give any figures showing the proportion of children in each Metropolitan borough who have so far been immunised against diphtheria?

Mr. E. Brown

The following statement gives estimates by the medical officer of health of each Metropolitan Borough, of the proportion of immunised children in the borough on the 30th June last. My hon. Friend will appreciate that under present conditions populations are too unstable to permit of accurate statistical statement in this form.

Borough. Approximate estimate of proportion of children immunised at 30–6–42.
Age under 5. Age 5–15.
Per cent. Per cent.
Battersea 13 51
Bermondsey 33 20
Bethnal Green 6 5
Camberwell 10 16
Chelsea 75 70
Deptford 21 14
Finsbury 21 20
Fulham 31 20
Greenwich 16 5
Hackney 23 19
Hammersmith 8 15
Hampstead 36 46
Holborn 30 65
Islington 13 23
Kensington 37 37
Lambeth 21 33
Lewisham 15 10
Paddington 16 26
Poplar 12 13
St. Marylebone 60 61
St. Pancras 39 26
Shoreditch 10 7
Southwark 46 54
Stepney 29 49
Stoke Newington 44 44
Wandsworth 45 54
Westminster 47 47
Woolwich 32 28