NEW VACCINE

Grey River Argus, 19 June 1925, Page 5

NEW VACCINE

PREVENTS T.B. FRENCH DISCOVERY. (Received June 18 at 7.45 p.m.) PARIS, June 17. Professor Calmette, lecturing before the Academy of Medicine, detailed the results of experiments with a new method of vaccination of new-born babies against tuberculosis. The vaccine is known as the Calmette-Guerin anti-baccilus, and is supposed by the Pasteur Institute. Out of 137 children belonging to contaminated families, treated during the first half of 1922, with this anti-tuberculosis vac cine, none had died of any illness which was the outcome of tuberculosis,

whereas tho mortality among non vaccinated children living under similar conditions in Paris was ?2 per cont. The vaccine is administered in a spoonful of milk every forty-eight hours from the third to the tenth day a'fter birth.,