The antitoxin treatment of diphtheria in the City of Glasgow fever hospital, Belvidere, during six and a half years / by John Brownlee.

  • Brownlee, John, 1868-1927.
Date:
[1902]
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Credit: The antitoxin treatment of diphtheria in the City of Glasgow fever hospital, Belvidere, during six and a half years / by John Brownlee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the tirst day of illness all recovered, and those received on the second daj'-, 2 out of 22, or 9 per cent died, while the further delay causes a corresponding increase in the mortality. Thus the paradox: that it is better for a child to become imme- diately ill, or to take what appears to be a severe attack of TABLE III.—COMPARATIVE TABLE OF THE PERCENTAGE MORTALITY FROM DIPHTHERIA AT DIFFERENT AGE-PERIODS IN THE METRO- POLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD’S HOSPITALS, • LONDON, AND IN THE CITY OF GLASGOW FEVER HOSPITAL, BELVIDERB, 1895-1900. Ages. Glas. 1st Jan., 1895, to 31st JIa3', 1896. Lond. 1895. Glas. 1896-97. Lond. 1896. Glas. 1897-98. Lond. 1897. Glas. 1898-99. Lond. 1898. Glas. 1899-00. Lond. 1899. -1 40-0 38-7 58-3 52-0 60-0 32-3 58-3 33-0 37-5 37-4 1-2 31-2 46-6 33-3 46-2 48-4 31-8 47-0 32-3 29-4 29-6 2-3 12-8 33-1 30 0 31-2 35-7 26-9 28-5 26T 26-6 21-3 3-4 16-6 .30-2 19-2 25-6 14-8 22-8 10-7 20-5 7-8 20T 4-5 12-5 29-4 8-6 25-2 11-7 20-7 33-3 19T 100 15‘5 5-10 6-2 19-5 13-0 18-7 5-8 16-4 10-7 12-7 14-2 11-8 10-15 7-7 8-5 8-4 16-6 4-7 9 0 51 5-3 15-20 100 7-3 40 0 5-8 22 2 2-4 1-8 16 20-25 12-5 1-3 1-9 25 0 4-2 1-2 12 5 •9 25-30 3-1 1-2 « • • 3-2 1-4 ' 30- 16-6 2-2 28-3 2-3 ... lOT 14-3 3 4 20 0 2-8 diphtheria and thus come at once under treatment, than to take an apparently milder attack, which, in the parents’ mind, is not of sufficient gravity to demand the attention of a TABLE IV.—NUMBER OF CASES OF DIPHTHERIA ADMITTED ON EACH DAY OF ILLNESS, WITH THE CORRESPONDING MORTALITY. Day of Disease. Number of Cases. Number of Deaths. Percentage of Mortality. First, .... 8 Second, .... 22 2 9-0 Third and fourth, 58 9 15-5 Fifth and upward, . 96 19 19-8 medical attendant till the illness has progressed for several days. Of all the cases received, a considerable proportion are, on admission, beyond the reacli of treatment. This number varies in different years; in all, it has amounted to 73 in the period