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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 May 2009
There could be no more suitable preface to emphasise the need for Diphtheria prevention than the following quotation from so high an authority as the metropolitan Asylums Board's Report of 1924–25: “Notwithstanding the great improvement in diagnosis, standard of living, education in matters of hygiene and other public health measures, the fact remains that, for reason not altogether clear, diphtheria appears to be stregthening its forces and gathering power unchecked by science.”
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page 62 note 1 Forbes, J. G.The Prevention of Diphtheria. Med. Res. Council, Special Report series, No. 115, p. 30.Google ScholarPubMed
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