Report on recent prevalence of erysipelas in the wards, 1874 / The Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.

  • Radcliffe Infirmary.
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1875
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    EEPORT ON EECENT PEEVALENCE OE ERYSIPELAS IN THE RADCLTFFE INFIRMARY, OXFORD. To the Committee of Management. Gentlemen, On the 5tli December I submitted pei'sonally to you a provisional statement of tlie results whicii, to that time, I had obtained in the inquiry which had been intrusted to me, concerning recent prevalence of erysipelas in the Infirmary, with suggestions respecting such matters as appeared to me to call for immediate attention. I now submit a detailed report of the inquiry. Subject of Inquiry.—The inquiry was directed to ascertain the conditions under which erysipelas had been produced in a series of cases under treatment in the Infirmary during the summer and autumn months^ and beginning of the winter, of 1874. The first attack of erysipelas occurred on the 10th June, the last included in this inquiry on the 9th December. Within this period, twenty-six cases admitted into the Infir- mary for other forms of disease or for injuries, had been attacked with erysipelas, and five of these cases had died in consequence of the superinduced malady. With three excep- tions, all the cases attacked were surgical cases; and of the three exceptions, two had required surgical interference, and the third had contracted erysipelas in a surgical ward, to which the patient had been removed from a medical ward while the A 2