Abstract of report on the origin and spread of typhoid fever in U.S. military camps during the Spanish war of 1898 / by Walter Reed ... Victor C. Vaughan ... and Edward O. Shakespeare.

  • United States. Surgeon-General's Office.
Date:
1900
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Credit: Abstract of report on the origin and spread of typhoid fever in U.S. military camps during the Spanish war of 1898 / by Walter Reed ... Victor C. Vaughan ... and Edward O. Shakespeare. 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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    SECOND GROUP. 31st 1st 158th lith 1st 1st 11th ;.'cl .5th 12th 8th 21st 12th 2d 1st 9th Michigan Georgia. Indiana Ohio - West Virginia ... Pennsylvania Minnesota Ohio...- Pennsylvania Minnesota Massachusetts -. Kansas New York Missouri New Hampshire. Pennsylvania Per cent Death of deaths from among typhoid. probable cases. 16 6.69 -9 7.50 10 7.81 19 6.52 12 4.61 13 5.40 10 3.49 13 3.22 16 4.73 19 4.38 19 7.00 21 7.14 20 4.00 19 7.08 30 10.00 26 7.78 Per cent of deaths among recognized cases. 18.60 35.00 20.40 12.83 11.32 7.10 6.85 6.77 10.53 13.19 13.10 22.10 13.88 10.49 14.13 16.77 Eleven regiments in the first group lost from all causes. 314 These 11 regiments had an aggregate strength when they lef t Chickamauga of _ 13,814 Percentage of deaths from all causes in the 11 regiments that left Chicka- mauga early .- 2.26 Sixteen regiments in the second group lost from all causes 814 These 16 regiments had an aggregate strength when they left Chickamauga of _ 20,334 Percentage of deaths from all causes in the 16 regiments of the second group, which left Chickamauga later _. 1. 54 It will be seen from these figures that so far as loss by death from all causes goes, these two groups differed, the loss being greater in the regiments that left Chickamauga early. Eleven regiments in the first group lost by death from typhoid fever 208 Percentage of deaths from typhoid fever in the 11 regiments that left Chick- amauga early . . .. .. 1. 50 Sixteen regiments in the second group lost by death from typhoid fever 271 Percentage of deaths from typhoid fever in the 16 regiments that remained longer at Chickamauga .. .. 1,33 It will be seen from these figures that while there is a marked dif- ference in the percentage of total deaths in these two groups, the percentages of deaths from typhoid fever differ less. Seven regiments out of the first group had among the probable cases of typhoid fever an average death rate of per cent. ^ 4.39 Sixteen regiments in the second group had among the probable cases of typhoid fever an average death rate of per cent,. 6.03 These figures, in our opinion, furnish additional evidence to our claim that we have not overestimated the number of cases of typhoid fever. We will next inquire whether or not the regiments that went to Porto Rico suffered more severely by deaths from all causes than did the regiments that remained in this country. The following figures bear upon this inquiry: Seven regiments of this corps that went to Porto Rico had a total loss by death of.. .. . . 250 Aggregate strength of these regiments on leaving Chickamauga. 8,750 Percentage of deaths from all causes among the regiments that went to Porto Rico 2.85 Percentage of deaths from all causes among those regiments that remained at Chickamauga . - 1.51