Show Diphtheria Unnecessary The deaths of approximately 1000 American children annually from diphtheria are unnecessary and could be prevented by early administration administration administration ad ad- ministration of antitoxin in adequate adequate adequate ade ade- quate doses says the Journal of the American Medical association The av available methods for control of diphtheria are sufficient to allow the complete elimination of this disease disease disease dis dis- ease in hi the United States In 1943 the death rate from diphtheria at all ages fell below one per hundred thousand for the first time |