Abstract
FROM the Fight Against Disease, 31, 1943, issued by the Research Defence Society, we learn that six anti-vivisection societies reported in the last pre-war year an income of more than £50,000. The Research Defence Society, on the other hand, got along vigorously in 1942 on about £500. Its report for 1942 gives interesting details about the prevention of a wide outbreak of smallpox when it appeared in Scotland in May 1942. Some of us who had to pass through Glasgow in July of that year remember well the encouraging spectacle of the people crowding to the vaccination centres. About 500,000 people were vaccinated and by July 31, thirty days after the vaccination campaign had begun, the last case of smallpox was reported. The report also deals with the remarkable results of immunization against diphtheria. There must be few intelligent people who will refuse their children this inestimable benefit. If any are still disposed to do so, they should read W. T. Russell' s report, published by the Medical Research Council, on the epidemiology of diphtheria during the last forty years.
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Recent Advances in Public Health Measures. Nature 152, 561 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152561a0
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