| Description | 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. |