1935
16 April 1935
DIPHTHERIA OUTBREAKS.
GULGONG, Monday.
Dr. Marjorie Tunley and Miss A. Snelson of Gulgong, informed the municipal council that a regional conference of hospital auxiliaries at Mudgee had viewed with anxiety recurrent outbreaks of diphtheria, and had emphasised the necessity for the auxiliaries to become active in urging their municipal and shire councils to open clinics for immunisation. They suggested circularising parents and schools on the subject, and that parents should apply to their own doctors for treatment. The council decided to ask the Health Department what it was prepared to do, and to circularise the parents and schools as suggested in the letter1
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1955
20 January 1955
Support for Aim to Have Every Child Immunised Against Diptheria
A decision to co-operate with the Department of Public Health in the intensification of carrying out diphtheria immunisation campaigns was made by last meeting of Gulgong Shire Council.
The Department advised the council on its aim to have every child in N.S.W. properly immunised and said it is now recommended that, instead of the initial immunisation and a reinforcing dose at school age, it is desirable to have a child immunised at age 6 months and to give it one reinforcing dose at 3 years of age and a further reinforcing dose on or just prior to commencing school.
It is also considered very desirable, says the Department, to have an immunisation campaign in as many areas as possible during the second or third week of February, 1955. The object of this is to endeavour to ensure that children receive immunisation or reinforcing doses prior to the usual autumnal rise in incidence of diptheria and to see that the children commencing school for the first time are immunised2
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