PROTECTION FROM POLIO
Number For Vaccination
(N.Z. Press Association)
DUNEDIN, April 5. The Director-General of Health (Dr. H. B. Turbott) has called a meeting of the epidemiology committee of the Board of Health to advise the Minister and Department of Health on how many more of the population of New Zealand can be offered protection from poliomyelitis by oral vaccine.
“I should like to see the whole population protected in this way, or at least a much wider section,” Dr. Turbott said in Dunedin today. "But it will depend entirely on the advice of the epidemiology committee.”
He hoped the meeting could be held about July, after the campaign for immunisation of school and preschool children was completed, and that the total work could be completed this year.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29791, 6 April 1962, Page 12
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