PREVENTIVE MEDICINE.
FIGHT AGAINST DIPHTHERIA.
PREJUDICE OF PARENTS
(By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") j CHRISTCHUPCH, this day. | Evidently some school medical officers ! chafe under the limitations of their \ powers, for one, in a report of a visit j to a Hokitika school, ended up by saying: "One sighs sometimes for a little martial law." He states that, with the aid of a final year medical student, he tested the Hokitika Infants' School with a view to ascertaining the children's susceptibility j to diphtheria. Nearly one-third of the • parents refused to allow' their children to be tested, but of the 41 that were tested 18 were found highly susceptible, j 11 were partially protected, while 12 I were adequately protected. As soon as time could be found he. hoped to complete the work by giving protective inoculations. Hokitika last year had 55 , cases' of diphtheria, and, adds the doctor, if one could inoculate the school population, one could guarantee the town against, another outbreak for five years. |
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 96, 24 April 1926, Page 15
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