DIPHTHERIA Will You deny Your Child this Protection 3 DIPHTHERIA COULD BE VIRTUALLY WIPED OUT IN NEW ZEALAND IF EVERY PARENT INSISTED ON IMMUNISATION FOR THE CHILDREN: The Treatment is simple, harmless; and free. It is best taken between the ages of six months and one year, but may be given later. These are facts In seven years uP to 1944 the incidence in England and Wales, where extensive immunisation was done, dropped from 61,340 to 29,440; In Eire, where little immunisation was done, the number of cases increased from 2,500 to 5,200. It is estimated that in Great Britain, of I00 children born and not immunised I0 will contract diphtheria and one will die; of every I00 immunised one will contract a mild form of diphtheria and death is extremely rare: Scottish figures show that an immunised school child is eight times less susceptible to diphtheria than a non-immunised one, and an immunised pre-school child twenty times less susceptible: IMMUNISATION IS FREE To EVERY CHILD IN NEW ZEALAND ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Keep this announcement for future reference: 22.6 Wubl
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 420, 11 July 1947, Page 17
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