A group of five-year-old pupils at Thorrington School watch two public health nurses. Christine Rickard (left) and Margaret Askin, sort through some of the hundreds of school medical record cards as part of the Health Department’s new programme to find children who have not been immunised against measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, and poliomyelitis. The department aims to eliminate measles among young children by 1985. The children, from left, are Gerard van Soest, Emma Kinsley, Byron Hill, Nicky Joseph, and Catherine Prangnell.
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Press, 15 August 1980, Page 3
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81A group of five-year-old pupils at Thorrington School watch two public health nurses. Christine Rickard (left) and Margaret Askin, sort through some of the hundreds of school medical record cards as part of the Health Department’s new programme to find children who have not been immunised against measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, and poliomyelitis. The department aims to eliminate measles among young children by 1985. The children, from left, are Gerard van Soest, Emma Kinsley, Byron Hill, Nicky Joseph, and Catherine Prangnell. Press, 15 August 1980, Page 3
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