A contribution to the natural history of scarlatina derived from observations on the London epidemic of 1887-1888 ...

  • Gresswell, D. Astley (Dan Astley)
Date:
1890
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Credit: A contribution to the natural history of scarlatina derived from observations on the London epidemic of 1887-1888 ... Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    The stages of illness on admission, as nearly as could be ascer- tained, are given in Table C. More than 90 per cent, of the cases were admitted on or before the eighth day of illness: 83 per cent, were admitted between the first and sixth day. On comparing the November and December cases it will be observed that, though there is some disparity in the proportions of cases admitted on or before the fourth day, there is but little in the proportions of eases admitted on or before the eighth day. The January cases were, it seems, brought into hospital at a considerably earlier stage of illness than the other cases. Table C.—Showing day of illness on admission. Percentage of cases admitted Month in on or before the which attack ist 2nd ^rd 4th sth 6th 7th Sth Li te Totals 4th 8th occurred. Day. Day. Day. Day. Day. Day. Day. Day. Day. Day. August cases 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 h f^ 0 0 Sept. „ 0 36 69 .52 23 I 2 5 17 205 76 91 Oct. ,, 2 .35 65 n 20 h 10 5 II 17b 71 93 Nov. „ I 17 27 J.3 10 4 I 0 3 7« 76 94 Dec. „ 2 II 21 19 8 6 .5 1 b 79 67 92 Jan. „ 1 15 15 9 4 0 I 0 0 45 88 100 8 114 197 116 65 16 19 II 42 588 SsVo of the total No 1 The Parishes and Unions, to which the monthly- sets of patients sevemlly belonged, are shown in Table D. The majority of the patients belonged to the Lambeth Parish, and Wandsworth and Clapham Union, both in the county of Surrey; and the November and December patients were taken very largely, and in not very unequal proportions, from these districts. [Some of the meteorological data for the year 1887 and for part of 1888, as recorded for Greenwich under direction of the Astronomer Royal, are graphically presented in Chart II and in Tables Y' and Y. The mean monthly temperature of the aii and of the dew point, and the average number of hours per week of bright sunshine rose to a maximum for the year 1887 in July, and each fell month by month afterwards. In passing it may be noted that the average per month of deaths weekly from Scarlatina in London began to rise in May, fell slightly in June, rose again in July, further in August,