NOT DANGEROUS
IMMUNISATION OE DIPHTHERIA STATEMENT BY N.S.W. BRANCH OF B.M.A. < N .Z.P. A. —Copy right) (Ree. 12.15) SYDNEY, This Day. The British Medical Association of Nba/v South Wales has admitted the postponement of whooping cough vaccination until after the end of the poliomyelitis epidemic, but said that diphtheria immunisation could continue without risk. It gave this advice after investigating reports that doctors suspected that double injections for whooping cough and diphtheria had increased the severity of poliomyelitis cases. The Metropolitan Medical Officer of Health,.. Dr. Graliame Drew,, said that diphtheria would sweep the country if children .were not immunised against it. He said there was no relationship betAveen poliomyelitis and diphtheria immunisation. Dr. -Dhew 'was commenting on Melbourne doctors’ discovery that poliomyelitis had occurred 4n many children soon After injection with combined whooping cough and diphtheria vaccine. I ’Dr. Drew safd: “The Health Department fears that people might read into the discovery that diphtheria immunisatibn is dangerous. It is nothing of the sort, and it would be a tragedy if there Avas a falling off in immunisation.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 151, 12 April 1950, Page 5
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