Word: voles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though not as extensive. In London, Birmingham and Manchester 56,700 high school children of 14 to 15½ took part: 13,300, who reacted negative to the tuberculin test, were left unvaccinated as controls; 14,100 more received BCG vaccine; 6,700 got another type of vaccine, vole bacillus.* Another 22,600 children, all of whom showed positive in tuberculin tests, were left unvaccinated as a second group of controls for comparison...
...rays. There were no deaths from TB, but 165 cases cropped up. Of these. 64 were in the negative-unvaccinated group, for an annual rate of 1.94 cases per 1,000; 13 were in the BCG group, a rate of .37 per 1,000, and seven were in the vole bacillus group, for a rate of .44. Of particular importance: not one of the TB cases in the vaccinated groups was of the especially dangerous meningeal (brain covering) or miliary (throughout the body) variety. There were 81 cases among children with positive tuberculin reactions - a significantly higher rate than among...
Miss Christie tries to do both, and succeeds in doing neither very well. Her first act is a static, cumbersome affair, in which Leonard Vole, a murder suspect, relates his story to two English barristers. If action is dull and the dialogue not very witty, the act at least has the virtue of developing a situation and preparing the audience for the courtroom scene to follow. It also leads one to expect that the hero will be saved by some new and ingenious clue, and the drama will be resolved in terms of the circumstances and not the people involved...
...pomposity and gruff voice should provide the play with a comic touch. Sir William is indeed pompous, and since Sullivan has a cold his voice is even gruffer than usual, but the playgoer may wait all evening without hearing him speak a genuinely clever line. As the suspect Leonard Vole, Robert Craven creates a peculiarly obnoxious hero, not from bad acting as one might first suspect, but because Agatha Christic has made him so. The witness for the prosecution is Patricia Jessel, as Romaine. She should be commended for bringing some restraint to a part which calls for a mysterious...
What little suspense Witness for the Prosecution creates comes in the courtroom scene, which represents one of Miss Christie's better efforts in play writing. But even here, the histrionics of the acting, rather than the suspense, will be remembered as typical of the play: "Leonard Vole, you murdered this woman," cries the prosecuting attorney, and Vole answers with a voice which seems to shake the chandeliers, "It's all a horrible dream...