National BCG Committee annual reports Published annual reports of the National BCG Committee based at Saint Ultan's Hospital Dublin. The committee was established by Noel Brown, Minister for Health, in July 1949. A committee of eight members was appointed with Dorothy Price as chairman. The role of the committee was to expand BCG vaccination in Ireland; train, appoint and support vaccinators; keep central records on vaccination; produce publicity to encourage vaccination and arrange for the importation and storage of vaccines. The annual reports contain lists of committee members and medical staff; reports on the year's activities including clinical tests, finance and propaganda; accounts and balance sheets; notes on the retirement or death of members and photographs of the vaccination programmes or propaganda. The reports also contain extensive tabulations with comments on numbers vaccinated; contact history; sex, age and location distribution of vaccinations; post-vaccination conversion rates, tuberculosis tests and follow-up results. The first reports covers a year and half period from July 1949 to December 1950, it also contains a summary of the history of BCG vaccination in Ireland with especial reference to the work of Dr Dorothy Price at Saint Ultan's Hospital. 1949-1976