TUBERCULOSIS CAMPAIGN
“PILOT SCHEME” AT WELLINGTON
B.C.G. VACCINE TO BE USED (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, September 1. Wellington within the next two months will begin a “pilot scheme’’ of immunisation against tuberculosis by use of B.C.G. vaccine. Announcing this to-day, the Minister of Health (Mr J. T. Watts) said that the preventive measures on a voluntary basis would be without cost to the individual. In the last two years the vaccine had been available in New Zealand to many nurses and known contacts of tuberculosis, he said. It was now intended that it would be available to as many eligible in selected age groups as possible.
The Minister said that facilities would not be available at this stage for individual persons to apply for vaccination, but there would be concentration on the mass vaccination of post-primary school children university and training college students, and other similar groups. About 2000 new cases of tuberculosis were being notified each year in New Zealand, a large number of which were cases arising in the age group 15 to 35 years, and it was essential that some other method be added to the existing means of control of this disease, said the Minister.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26516, 3 September 1951, Page 2
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