Rubella

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Abstract
A study of health records of 935 boys graduating from a college preparatory school between 1935 and 1959 revealed that approximately 90 per cent had a history of chickenpox and measles, 58 per cent had experienced mumps, and less than 50 per cent reported rubella by the time of graduation. In recent years, nearly all chickenpox, measles, and mumps occurred before high school, as did 56 per cent of reported rubella cases. Thus, these communicable diseases appear to to be moving from the adolescent into the preadolescent years, rubella more slowly than the others. Social forces of population increase, aggregation, and mobility were felt to account for this changing age distribution. However, the authors believe that rubella will require specific preventive measures, in addition to this natural shift, if adults are to attain a significant increase in immunity.

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