Desirability of the Routine Use of Tetanus Toxoid

Abstract

DURING the last few years a considerable amount of additional information regarding the effectiveness and hazards of active immunization against tetanus has become available. The war, with its many casualties among unimmunized, partly immunized and fully immunized civilian and military personnel, contributed greatly to this fund of information. In the light of this added knowledge and in view of the continuing diversity of opinion and practice regarding the routine active immunization of children and adults, it was believed that the entire problem deserved reevaluation. An effort was made to analyze objectively all the factors involved and to arrive at a . . .