Study in the Epidemiology of Diphtheria in Relation to the Active Immunization of Certain Age Groups

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Study in the Epidemiology of Diphtheria in Relation to the Active Immunization of Certain Age Groups Edward S. Godfrey, Jr. CopyRight*Read before the Health Officers Section of the American Public Health Association at the Sixtieth Annual Meeting at Montreal, Canada, September 14, 1931.†This is a part of a study to determine the effectiveness of procedures for the reduction of diphtheria, assisted by a grant from the Commonwealth Fund and under the auspices of the American Public Health Association through its Committee on Administrative Practice. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.22.3.237-b Published Online: August 29, 2011