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July 13 —
August 4 —
September 4
October 7 —
November 2 —
December 7 1
1934 January. 8 1
February. 11 —
March. 10 2
April. 5 1
May. 4 —
June. 9 —
July. 2 —
. August. 3 1
September. 8 2
October. 10 —
November. 7 —
December. 8 —
We commenced our immunization at the school where the
outbreak originated, and the response was most encouraging. The
junior and infants' departments were tested on 10th October, 1932,
and the first dose of the immunizing agent given on 17th October,
1932. In the junior department 68.8% of the children were schicktested
and in the infants' department 61.8%.
Before the end of the Christmas term of 1932 we had started
immunization in 5 of our schools and at the beginning of June 1933,
we had visited the 9 schools in the Borough and given 3 doses of
the immunizing agent. We were then ready to do the post-schick
testing in the schools which had been the earlier ones to be visited.
Until recently we used Toxoid Antitoxin mixture (Burroughs
Wellcome T.A.M.) for children and Toxoid-Antitoxin-Floccules
(T.A.F.) for adults. Recently for children of pre-school age (under
5 years) we have used Burroughs Wellcome's Formol Toxoid.
We have not used any Alum-Toxoid. We have not used Formal
Toxoid generally throughout the schools, owing to the extra time
involved in the use of the Malonev test.
For children between 5 and 11 years of age, we give 3 doses
of 1 c.c. each of T.A.M. In children between 11 and 14 years we
give only ½ c.c. of the T.A.M. for the first dose. If no reaction occurred
the second and third doses were 1 cc. each. In adults we
we gave as a first dose .2 c.c. of the T.A.F. In children under 5
years of age we gave 3 doses of 1 c.c. each of Formol Toxoid. In
1932 we gave the second dose in 2 weeks after the first, and the third