Polio Doses Missed
Although an estimated 95 per cent of pre-school children in the Christchurch health district received their first poliomyelitis immunisation last year, only 92 per cent got the second dose, and 87 per cent the third. It was essential, for immunity, for children to have the three doses, said a Health Department spokesman. It seemed, on the figures, that mothers were forgetting about the second and third doses, though movements out of the district could account for some of the deficiencies.
During the year 5729 preschool children, mostly infants, received the first dose, 5514 the second and 5262 the third. The department’s percentages were determined on the basis of 6017 as the average of the total births in the district in 1964 and 1965.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30965, 22 January 1966, Page 14
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