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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    M'hich they occur in the above table, they will be di.stributed in tlie two localities in the manner shown in the annexed table. . It will be seen from Table II that in Glasgow a much larger proportion of the cases occur at the early ages, and in conse- (juence that although the crude death-rates shown in Table I are lower for London, yet that the corrected rate, allowing for difference of age-incidence, is rather in our favour, being 14%3 per cent as against l(i'9 per cent, even although the fatality is so higli in Glasgow at ages above 10, and the number of cases at 10 to 20 is less than half that of London. In order that fuller detail of the difference may be cjisily TABLE II.—REL.VnVE PROPORTION IN 1,000 CASES AT DIFFERENT AGES OF THE CASES OF DIPHTHERIA TRE.\TKD IN GLASGOW AND LONDON, WITH THE APPLICATION OF THE GLASGOW DEATH- RATES TO THE LONDON AGE-INCIDENCE OF CASES. Qlauuow. London. Ageu. Number with Ages of 1,000 Cases. Death-rate. Number witli Agi-a of 1,000 Cases. l*ro|>ortioii of Deaths at the Glasgow IX'atli-rates. -1 54 G 4(1-2 17-5 8-1 1-2 14!):i 88-2 59-2 22 G 2-:i 142-8 22-8 88-9 ‘20-8 .•1-4 149-4 18-G 1-20-0 lG-8 4-.'j 108-5 15-0 1-2G-2 18-9 5-10 2.')l-4 9-7 8G4-8 .T.-8 10-20 70-2 10-4 lGl-2 lG-7 20-;io 48-1 5-1 89-7 2-0 ;io- 25-8 lG-1 22-G 8-G 19-0 14-.8* * That is, tlie Glasgow death-rate corrected to the London figures is 14'3. seen, the following table (Table III) is annexed, in which the percentage mortalities at each age-period are given in parallel columns for both London and Glasgow since the commence- ment of the treatment of diphtheria by antitoxin. The great difficulty in obtaining uniformly good results in the treatment of diphtheria is to be found in the rapidity with winch progress of tlie disease les.sens the chance of successful treatment. As an illustration of this Table IV is given. In this tiible the cases admitted last year are arranged in groups, according to the periods at which they came under treatment, and the corresponding death-rates given. Of those treated on