Fight Against "Catch" Diseases
Received Thursday, 7 p.m. ROME, June 23. The World Health Organisation during 1950, is to spend £28,585 in fighting all hinds of ^eatehing'7. diseases ranging from smallpox and yellow fever to whooping-cough and measles. Delegates to the conference here have agreed upon a programme which provides: — Firstly, expert groups to study the most effective means of obtaining universal vaccination against smallpox which in 1944 is estimated to have eaused 216.00 deaths in India alone. Secondly, an experts7 conference to study means of ,eheeking the spread of infantile paralysis. Thirdly, a campaign against trnchoma. an eye disease which often leads to total blindness and which is believed to affect 90 per cent in Egypt. Fonrfhly, a meeting of child experts to recommend improvements in immrmisation against diphtheria, whooping congh, typhoid fever and other childhood diseases.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 June 1949, Page 5
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