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circularised the district, pointing out the danger of immunizing.
During the following week we had a great increase in the number of
requests for consent forms from parents of pre-school age and on
the next Saturday morning there was a large increase in the number
at the school clinic. The League had quite unintentionally
awakened the parents to the fact of the existence of diphtheria, had
taught many whom we had not reached, and that the public health
authority was doing something in the matter.
We have not felt the necessity of an elaborate system of propaganda
; we have found the quiet efforts of the officers of the local
authority, including, of course, the education authority, to have
been more effective.
We are fortunate that we are an automonous education
authority. We are therefore in close contact with both the infant
welfare centres and the schools. We are given every facility by the
education authority. The school routine has been very little disturbed.
When immunization takes place in the school, there is
little or no commotion, and very seldom is there any crying.
The numbers dealt with in the 26 months November, 1932, to
December, 1934, inclusive were as follows:—
Preliminary Schick Tests :—2469.
Reactions—Positive : 1394.
Negative: 1075. .
Posterior Schick Tests :—
Positive: 13.
Negative: 2050.
The total number immunized were —
Is/ Dose—4052.
2nd Dose:—3840. ..
3rd Dose—3631.
91 refused after the 1st dose and 71 after the 2nd dose.
2 were schick-negative after the 1st dose and 3 after the
second dose.
119 were awaiting their 2nd and 3rd doses and 135 were
awaiting their 3rd dose.