USE OF NEW VACCINE
TUBERCULOSIS REDUCTION HEALTH OFFICERS' PLANS (P.A.X WELLINGTON, Feb. 25. By the end of the year the Health Department hopes to offer immunisation against the development of genuine tuberculosis to those people who. by a special test, have been found free of contact with the tubercle organism. This was indicated last night by DrClaude Taylor, director of the department's tuberculosis division, at Ihe annual meeting of the Wellington Tuberculosis Association. Dr. Tayior said that a vaccine, developed some years ago by two French bacteriologists, had undergone extensive tests in Scandinavia, parts of Europe, Canada and the United States. There was now much evidence to indicate that the incidence and mortality of tuberculosis could definitely be reduced by use of the vaccine if it were given in addition to and in conjunction with the present accepted methods of control, most of which were already exercised in the Dortiinion. The vaccine, continued Dr. Taylor, was now being produced in Australia and his department was assured that supplies would be available by air transport towards the end of the year.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22571, 26 February 1948, Page 6
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