Sanitation and Typhoid Vaccination
In an editorial on this subject the " Medical Record " says antityphoid inoculation is undoubtedly protective. The recently issued report of the British Army Commission shows that the immunity following it lasts for two or three years only. There seems to be some foundation for the fear that typhoid inoculation may light up an incipient tuberculosis, or weaken the natural resistance to that disease. These disadvantages ought not to count against the employment of the measure m an emergency, as m the case of hospital physicians and nurses. When there are many typhoid patients the risk of direct infection for the nurses is very great and absolute safety for them lies only m preventive inoculation. :( British Journal of Nursing."
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Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VII, Issue 1, 1 January 1914, Page 49
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122Sanitation and Typhoid Vaccination Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VII, Issue 1, 1 January 1914, Page 49
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