Ottawa. —Extraordinary and highly encouraging results have been achieved by the battle in Canada to control the four principal communicable diseases of childhood— -measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough and diphtheria. An analysis of figures released by the Government shows that the deaths per 100.000 population in these four diseases have been reduced so definitely that the rate in 1938 was only 17.5 per cent of the rate in 1921.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1939, Page 7
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69Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1939, Page 7
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