All #children under 14 years of age should be tested for susceptibility to diphtheria.
Have your children of the ages of from one to 14 years who show susceptibility to diphtheria immunised against diphtheria.
Toxin-antitoxin is the 100 per cent. preventive of diphtheria.
STEPS IN NEW ZEALAND.
The New Zealand Department of Health has been keeping in close touch with these latest developments, and has indeed made trial of the methods outlined above. The earliest adoption of those methods in New Zealand, so far as is known, were in 1919…. Since then, the method has been used for the #immunisation of one school in a suburb of Dunedin and two schools in Hamilton. The results have in each case been most encouraging.
The Health Department is desirous of pressing on with this phase of its work, and hopes in the near future to be able to offer to the school population in all parts of the Dominion this method of protection against a most formidable disease.
… https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240503.2.117 #OnThisDay#OTD#PapersPast#Immunization#Antitoxins#Health#Medicine#NewZealand
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