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primary and reinforcing courses. This is particularly disappointing
where measles and rubella are concerned, the numbers having
dropped considerably. It is interesting to note that the smaller
numbers attending Council clinics or immunised in school are
paralleled by the smaller numbers going to their family doctors.
The ending of the routine vaccination against smallpox of
babies, which occurred in 1971, is reflected in the very low
figures of primary vaccinations in 1972. Revaccinations are
mainly of people travelling abroad and are likely to stay constant
for some years to come.