ON THE INCREASE
INCIDENCE OF DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION URGED (P.A.) AUCKLAND, June 10. “Although the number of diphtheria cases now occurring has decreased somewhat, the danger of epidemic conditions being maintained is by no means past,” said the medical officer of health for Auckland, Dr L. S. Davis, when urging parents to take advantage of the campaign to have their children immunised against diphtheria. He said the offer of medical practitioners to carry out this work presented a wonderful opportunity to the people of Auckland, and if sufficient advantage were taken of the offer it would, it was hoped, free the city from much of the danger of this terrible disease.
“ The increase in the number of diphtheria cases this autumn, and th> change of character to a more severe type of disease, have caused considerable anxiety,” said Dr Davis. “There has been a definite increase in diphtfleria in New Zealand in the past two years, and a still further and marked increase is being experienced this year.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26175, 11 June 1946, Page 4
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