The Schick test and active immunisation / R.A. O'Brien [and others].

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[1923?]
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Credit: The Schick test and active immunisation / R.A. O'Brien [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE SCHICK TEST AND ACTIVE IMMUNISATION. R. A. O’BRIEN, A. J. EAGLETON, C. C. OKELL and Miss M. BAXTER From the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories, Beckenham, Kent. A Received for publication January lOth, 1923. It will probably be some considerable time before the people of any large city in England are so alive to the importance of the more recent measures for the control of diphtheria that they will freely allow their children to be tested by the Schick method, and if found to be positive reactors to be given the three doses of a toxin-antitoxin mixture. In the remarkable campaign carried out recently in New York some ninety thousand children were tested and if positive immunised, 70 per cent, of the parents giving consent. However, these new measures are slowly but surely being adopted in England, and a review of the results obtained is probably sufficiently important to merit publication at this stage. Leete (1920), Ward (1921), Dickinson (1922), Harries (1922), Dudley (1922), and Copeman with the present authors (1922) have given the results of Schick tests. To these series we have to add tests on 2769 individuals (see Table I). ' ‘ ... ' ( 1