SAVING THE BABIES.
New Form of Vaccination. FIGHTING AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS. By C*bl«—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Reoeived June 18, 7.46 p.m.) PARIS, June 17. Professor Calmette, lecturing before tlie Academy of Medicine, detailed the results of experiments with a new method of vaccination of new born babies against tuberculosis. Vaccine is supplied by the Pasteur Institute, and out of 137 children belonging to contaminated families, treated during the first half of 1922, with anti-tuberculosis vaccine, none had died of any illness, which was the outcome of tuberculosis, whereas the mortality among nonvaccinated children living under similar conditions in Paris was 32 per cent. The vaccine is administered in a spoonful of milk every forty-eight hours, from the third to the tenth day after birth.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 19 June 1925, Page 9
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126SAVING THE BABIES. Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 19 June 1925, Page 9
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