FIGHT AGAINST T.B.
EFFFX’TIVE VACCINE FOR h ABIES. Paris, June 17. Professor Calmette, lecturing before the Academy of Medicine detailed the results of experiments with a new method of. vaccination of newborn babies against tuberculosis. Tho vaccine is known as Calmette-Guerin, and the bacillus is supplied by tho Pasteur Institute. Out of 137 children belonging to contaminated families treated during the hist half of 1922 with anti-tuber-culosis vaccine, none had died of any illness which was the outcome of tuberculosis whereas the mortality among non-vaccinated children living under similar conditions in Paris was 32 per cent. Tho vaccine is administered in a spoonful of milk every 48 hours from the third to the tenth day after birth. -(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 167, 20 June 1925, Page 7
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