THE VALUE OF RE-VACCINATION.
Thc'report recently furnished' to the loial government bond, of' London'' related, to 'ail ay'crago' number !of 10,804 persons pfas 'manentlyemplbyed'in the postal service, fill, of whom,have,been required' to. undergo re-' , vaccination on 'admission to; the service; Unless tliat'operation Had been performed witliin ' Amoiig'these persons diirihg the'ten years 1870-1879 there'had not' been' a single fatal case of small-pox, ahd only in tea instances have there been nonfatal attacks,, all of Mich' were of a very ,slight' character,' 1 In tlio telegraph department, where the enforcement of revacciriation has hot beeircaiTied out with quite the same, completeness, ; twelve cases have,occurred [in . theiSame perioti ambng a staff averaging 1458 in number.' Eightiof these'attacks were of persons who had nbt been' re-vacoinatedj' and one proved 1 fatal; 1 ' The 'remaiaing'.'four Wre. of re-yaccin ated persons, who all perfectly re-" coveVed' ,Syithout\pji;ting.' This experience; •liKe that of thi pitals/'seeiha. Jo' show ; 4hat'''re-vaccinated persons enjoy 'absolute immunity Iroiri'severe attacks of small-pox; and. that' t)ieirrisk jof : catcliing thai 1 disease at ail, even, in its most' modified forhv 'is' infinitesimal.—Sanitarian','
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1014, 4 March 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)
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177THE VALUE OF RE-VACCINATION. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1014, 4 March 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)
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