Report on the recent epidemic of measles in Brighton, with a discussion of the possibility of the employment of further measures for preventing the high mortality from this disease / by Arthur Newsholme.

  • Newsholme, Arthur, Sir, 1857-1943.
Date:
[1893]
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Credit: Report on the recent epidemic of measles in Brighton, with a discussion of the possibility of the employment of further measures for preventing the high mortality from this disease / by Arthur Newsholme. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    Diagram II. Sheirivg the annual death-rates from Measles, Whoojnng Cough, Scarlet Fever, and Enteric Fever Jor each year from 1869 to 1892 inclusive. It will be seen that Measles and Whooping Cough together cause a much higher mortality than Scarlet Fever and Enteric Fever together. Measles occurs in an epidemic form every second or third year, while at longer intervals epidemics of a more severe type occur. One of these occurred in 1882-3, and we have recently suffered from a second of the same k nd. There is, however, no evidence on the w hole of any decline in its prevalence or fatality, looking at the whole series of