The antitoxin treatment of diphtheria in the City of Glasgow fever hospital, Belvidere, during six and a half years / by John Brownlee.

  • Brownlee, John, 1868-1927.
Date:
[1902]
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Credit: The antitoxin treatment of diphtheria in the City of Glasgow fever hospital, Belvidere, during six and a half years / by John Brownlee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    improvement of 75 per cent. This difference is tlie more note- worthy as showing that the saving of life has not been so much among the very young as among those of 2 years old and upwards. The high death-rate at the ages of 10 years and upwards merits some remark. It may be in part due to the smallness of the numbers, but in large measure it is to be explained by thff fact, which an examination of the case records made quite clear, that at least one-third of persons TABLE I.—SHOWING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF OASES ADMITTED TO THE CITY OF GLASGOW FEVER HOSPITAL, BELVIDERE, 1871-31.SX MAY, 1901, IN TWO GROUPS —1st, 1871-1891 (PRE-ANTITOXIN PERIOD), AND 2nd, 1895-1901 (ANTITOXIN PERIOD), WITH THE CORRESPONDING STATISTICS FOR THE METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS’ BOARD HOSPITALS, LONDON, IN TWO GROUPS—1890-1894 (PRE- ANTITOXIN PERIOD), AND 1898-1899 (ANTITOXIN PERIOD). Glasgow. London. Pre-Antitoxin Period (1871-91). Antitoxin Period (1st Jan., 189.5, to 31st May, 1901). Pre-Antitoxin Period (1890-94). Antitoxin Peiiod (1895-99). W) O < 03 0) 03 ci o 0} A c3 <11 Q c-e o o 03 03 03 ci O 03 JZ eS O OJ >> tO-iJ c -e <D t- ^ 5? 03 03 03 c3 o 03 c3 O Q ei ^ ■s C 4-3 03 ^ w o O 03 03 03 d O to d 03 Q bo-*3 d ^ C *3 0) u o o f^'S -I 1-2 2- 3 3- 4 4- 5 5- 10 10-20 20-30 30- 17 91 85 106 82 233 93 66 17 12 61 51 49 38 93 9 6 70-6 67-0 60-0 46-2 46-3 39-9 9-6 9 0 67 183 175 184 135 308 86 59 31 31 71 41 25 20 30 9 3 5 46-2 38-8 23-4 13- 6 14- 8 9-7 10-4 5T 161 179 64] 896 1163 1222 3461 1959 844 412 116 396 489 546 479 946 15] 38 35 64-8 61-7 54-5 46-9 39-2 27-3 7'7 4 5 8-5 510 1719 2582 3486 3666 10578 4681 1154 659 193 610 684 801 759 1584 248 21 28 37-8 .35-5 26-4 22-9 20-7 14-9 5-3 1-8 4-2 Total, 790 319 40-4 1228 235 191 10777 3196 29-6 29035 4928' 16-9 dying at the higher ages were admitted in a moribund condition. It would seem that the hospital did not receive anything like a fair average of the disease at the higher ages such as seems to be the case with the hospitals in London. The comparative figures for London given in the third section of the table are interesting as showing that the Glasgow mortality compares very favourably with that in the south on the whole. It will be seen tliat the number of cases at different ages is very different. If a thousand cases be taken at the ages at