§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Wales what measures he instituted specifically to inform the parents of young children living in Wales of the importance of immunisation against diphtheria and tetanus, as well against measles, particularly when figures published for the uptake of the former are below average for Great Britain and those for the latter well below average.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsThe Health Education Council's leaflets and posters encouraging parents to have their children protected against infectious diseases have been widely distributed in Wales. The need to get across to parents the importance of immunisation was stressed in the information paper "Prevention in the Child Health Services" which was issued to health authorities last year.
§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Wales what percentage of children in Wales who have completed the basic course of diphtheria and tetanus protection have been given the reinforcing dose of diphtheria toxoid, as recommended by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, some three years after the primary course is completed by the age of 388W five years; and what is the latest annual immunisation acceptance rate of the three separate doses that completes a primary course of diphtheria and tetanus protection.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsOver 80 per cent. of children born in Wales between 1967 and 1976 who had completed a primary course of diphtheria and tetanus protection received a reinforcing dose of diphtheria toxoid. By the end of 1980 the acceptance rate of children born in 1978 for the completion of a primary course was 75.4 per cent.