Notes on the occurrence of a number of cases of epidemic roseola or rotheln in the City of Glasgow fever hospital, Kennedy Street / by John Brownlee and Campbell S. Marshall.

  • Brownlee, John, 1868-1927.
Date:
[1897?]
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Credit: Notes on the occurrence of a number of cases of epidemic roseola or rotheln in the City of Glasgow fever hospital, Kennedy Street / by John Brownlee and Campbell S. Marshall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Rpjirinle.d from the “ Glasgow Medical Journal” for March, 1S97.'\ NOTES ON THE OCCURRENCE OF A NUMBER OF CASES OF EPIDEMIC ROSEOLA OR ROTHELN IN THE CITY OF GLASGOW FEVER HOSPITAL, KENNEDY STREET. By JOHN BROWNLEE, M.A., M.B., C.M., Assistant Medical Officer in Charge of the Hospital; and CAMPBELL S. MARSHALL, M.B., C.M., Resident Assistant Physician, Belvidere Fever Hospital. We are led to make this communication as it relates to a matter which must have a considerable amount of local interest. The presence of an epidemic roseola is a point on which difference of opinion must always exist, and which must be very difficult to prove; but we think that a consideration of our notes will lead to more than a strong suspicion that such an epidemic is at present in our midst. One of the di-awbacks of a fever hospital is the liability to infection to which patients are always exposed through the possibility of the introduction into a ward of some one who is incubating a diffei’ent infectious disease to that which is there isolated. Lately the epidemic of measles has led to a com- paratively large number of such cases being sent in, so many, in fact, that a ward has been set apart for their isolation during the last five months. Cross infection did not occur until about the middle of December, but from that time till the end of the third week in January it was very frecpient. At first it was not recognised that a third exanthematous fever Avas present. This arose from the fact that the first case resembled scarlatina, and occurred in a patient in whom the presence of that disease on admission might be considered doubtful, while the next three were very like mild cases of measles. On nth January the determination was come to that epidemic roseola was the disturbing factor, and a ward AA^as set