PROPHYLACTIC INJECTIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10209, 11 April 1911, Page 4

PROPHYLACTIC INJECTIONS.

The Otago Daily Times understands that a. communication has been received by the medical superintendent of the Dunedin Hospital from the district health officer at Dunedin with reference to the subject, of prophylactic injections for the prevention of typhoid fever, with which it is isuggested that the nurses who are engaged in fiie typhoid fever ward at the Dunedin Hospital should be treated, if they so desire it. Dr Ohamptaloup (district health officer), questioned in regard to this method of treatment, said it lias been largely used at Home for some years past, principally among troops, and has now been perfected. In accordance with this means of preventing infection from typhoid, a preparation is made from cultures of typhoid bacilli, and those desiring to be rendered immune from typhoid fever receive two small injections at intervals, and the liability of contracting typhoid fever over the succeeding two years is then very slight, and if it should be contracted it occurs in a very mild form. Hie Health Department at Dunedin intends preparing this material for. purposes of injection, and it will also be issued through the Department to the '-arious hospitals in the Dominicti.