That diphtheria could be wiped out by the stroke of a pen was the view taken by Dr. Andrew Topping, Senior Medical Officer of the London County Council Public Health Department, who. was lecturing on "The Prevention of Infection" recently in the series of doctors' lectures organized by the British Medical Association as a contribution to the National Fitness Campaign, at the Ideal Homes Exhibition in London, Diphtheria, he said, kills about 3,000 children every year in Great Britain; and if he were appointed dictator, he would pass an Act to make immunization against diphtheria compulsory. The experience of Ontario," he emphasized, "where the nearest approach to 100 per cent immunization of children has been achieved, shows what can be expected—diphtheria has completely disappeared."
A fact that should be borne in mind by parents when considering immunization for their children is that no child who has ever had an anti-tetanus injection can be given the anti-diphtheria serum.
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