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a severe form. Most deaths occur under the age of five years.
Parents are inclined to wait until their children reach school age,
but by doing so they leave the child unprotected during the most
critical years of its life.
Inoculation should therefore be done at as early an
age as possible. Parents! Does not this deserve your
careful consideration ?
DO NOT WAIT FOR AN EPIDEMIC!
It is during an epidemic that parents are most concerned for
the safety of their children, but a few months must elapse from
the time the child is inoculated until protection is sufficient to resist
an attack of Diphtheria.
Therefore begin at once, whilst the disease is not prevalent,
and there is less risk of infection.
NOW IS THE TIME TO PROTECT YOUR CHILD!
In most cases your own medical attendant is prepared to carry
out the necessary inoculations, or you may attend the School
Clinic, Town Hall, East Ham (any Friday at 3 p.m.) or the Maternity
and Child Welfare Clinic, High Street School, East Ham
(any Friday at 10.30 a.m.), where free treatment is available.
The deaths from the seven principal zymotic diseases (Smallpox,
Whooping Cough, Measles, Diphtheria, Diarrhoea, Scarlet
Fever and Enteric Fever) during the year numbered 84, equivalent
to a zymotic death rate of 0.6 per 1,000 population, as compared
with a rate of 0.3 for 1933.