Press Cuttings, 1975

Cuttings from agricultural journals, pharmaceutical journals and local and national press concerning a wide variety of subjects such as an epidemic of Feline Infectious Enteritis and a reported shortage in Typhoid vaccines in July 1975: 'Typhoid scare catches chemists on the hop'. (There are a number of BBC radio interview transcripts on the vaccine shortage.) Also includes news of developments in Wellcome products (including 'snapsafe' child-resistant closure on plastic bottles - March 1975) and their advertisements taken from journals such as 'Chemist and Druggist' and 'Retail Chemist', new appointments in the Wellcome Foundation, contracts won by Wellcome Industrial, articles discussing the 25th anniversary of the invention of the aerosol, a number of articles regarding agricultural products and problems such as Mastitis and Sheep Scab (including controversy caused by the use of showers by some farmers to treat Sheep Scab, having been banned by the Ministry of Agriculture after 1949 trials due to their ineffectiveness), news of Wellcome Foundation activity in abroad, for example, the delivery of pharmaceuticals and insecticides to Benghazi, Libya, a contract signed in May 1975 between the Wellcome Foundation and the Sudanese government to build a foot-and-mouth disease vaccine production laboratory near Khartoum and a trip by 31 scientists and executives from Berkhamsted research station to Beirut, Lebanon

1975

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