Souvenir B.M.A. meeting Manchester 1929.

  • Burroughs Wellcome and Company.
Date:
[1929]
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Credit: Souvenir B.M.A. meeting Manchester 1929. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Illuminated Charts and Diagrams Six illuminated panels in a central position in the exhibit are devoted to charts and diagrams illustrating points of special interest in connection with products of particular topical interest. Prophylaxis and Treatment O F Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever The Schick Test and immunisation constitute one of the most notable advances in the sphere of preventive medicine as apphed to diphtheria. Their systematic adoption would result in a great yearly saving of child life. Reduction in the incidence of the disease would also lighten very materially Diphtheria the burden on the ratepayers of the present heavy expenditure incurred in the existing system of notification, removal, disinfection, isolation and hospital treatment, and in the general preventive measures against the spread of infection in the homes, schools and elsewhere. The Dick Test supplies information of the greatest possible value in relation to the susceptibility or otherwise of individuals to scarlet fever. An interesting com- mentary appeared in the Annual Report (1926) of the Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health, emphasising the excellent prospects of solving some of the administrative problems in connection scarlet with scarlet fever. It is pointed out that Fever the detection of susceptible contacts and others by means of the Dick test, and the effective pro- tection of such individuals by means of scarlatinal antitoxin serum, are obviously measures of the highest administrative importance, which, it is satisfactory to note, are being more and more adopted in hospitals and other institutions.' Encouraging reports have also been received from several sources, and particularly from centres in the North of England regarding the use * The Lancet, March 5, 1927