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TETANUS SHOTS SCHEDULED Arrangements have been made with Dr. Phillip Davis, co-chairman of the Tetanus Immunization Com mittee of the Guilford County Medical Scoiety, for employees of Adams- Millis to receive tetanus toxoid shots. The series of shots will be adminis tered in our plants at a cost of 50^ for each shot. This will be the only cost to the employee. Employees of Plants #6 and #7 will be given the serum on April 30, beginning at 10:00 a.m. for the day shift. The night shift will be innocula- ted at 5:30 p.m. The doctors will move to each department to expedite the treatment and to keep to a mini mum the loss of time. The third shift will report to Plant #1 on May 3 at 7:00 a. m. Immunization will begin in Plant #1 on Thursday, May 3, at 7:00 a.m. and will continue until the third and day shifts have been completed. The second shift will be innoculated on Monday, April 30, after the physicians have completed Plants #6 and #7. At Southern Die, the doctors will be at the plant from 3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 1. Sec ond shift operators are to report prior to work shift for the shots. Schedules for MAC Panel will be announced later. According to Dr. Davis, a person who has never had tetanus toxoid should have a series of shots with the second shot coming thirty days after the first. The third shot should be one year after the first. Booster shots should then be given about every four years. All veterans who have not had a booster shot within the past four years should have one shot only--a booster shot. The dosage for the shots is the same whether they be first, second, third or a booster shot. Tetanus germs are found in the soil and dirt everywhere and a wound subjects a person to the disease of tetanus unless he has been immunized by toxoid. Tetanus toxoid immunizes a per son against the disease with 100% ef fectiveness. A person who has not had the tetanus toxoid shots is in a dangerous spot if the tetanus germ gets in his body; he is subject to one of the most deadly man killers. Once the spore of the tetanus germ is captured beneath a scab, or in a puncture wound, it grows and emits a poison which attacks the central nervous system, causing death. The death suffered by one with tetanus, according to Dr. Davis, is not an easy one. After a person has tetanus, it is too late to think about using the toxoid shots. The safe way is to take advan tage of the shots which are being administered by the physicians for the cost of the serum only. The doctors will be donating their time and ser vices. A person who has received the tetanus toxoid shots will be immune to the tetanus germ if any ever gets into his system through puncture wounds, scratches, insect bites, automobile accidents, industrial injuries or through other wounds, with a booster shot at the time of the injury. Dr. Davis explained the reason the physicians are making this program of tetanus shots available for the cost of the serum only is that it is taking too big a risk to wait until the time of the injury at which time the treatment might be worse than the dangers of the disease. Administration of the tetanus shots in our plants is not limited to our em ployees. Members of your family and
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