The medical complications, accidents and sequels of typhoid fever and other exanthemata / by Hobart Amory Hare ... and E.J.G. Beardsley ... with a special chapter on the mental disturbances following typhoid fever, by F.X. Dercum ... with 26 illustrations and 2 plates.

  • Hare, H. A. (Hobart Amory), 1862-1931.
Date:
[1909], [©1909]
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Credit: The medical complications, accidents and sequels of typhoid fever and other exanthemata / by Hobart Amory Hare ... and E.J.G. Beardsley ... with a special chapter on the mental disturbances following typhoid fever, by F.X. Dercum ... with 26 illustrations and 2 plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in 1900, we find llu' iiiuiilicr of cases recorded a.s 9721. Tliere were 1063 deaths, giviii: a mortality rate of only 10.93 per cent., which, with the exce})tioii of the rate for 1905 (10..jS per cent.), is the lowest mortality rate for this disease that riiiladelphia has known. The decrease in the mimhcr of typhoid fever patients reported in 1907 and 1908 was dne to the imjiroved water supply in tho.se Fig. 3 OD il 5S 1- :/• ■* ■^ ^ -* oe OO 3D C« :«^ o X 1 1 i 1000 I ~'U00 1 .JOOO 1 i 4000 1 5U00 1 0000 1 rooo 1 8000 1 !)C00 1 1001 Ml 1 » «> a» QO QC oc on a> » an 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 COOO rooo 8000 9000 100001 -p ■n ■ J I'lo. 2.—.Mortality of tyi>lioici fever in Berlin before supply of ilrinkitiK water was filteied. In tlie decade 1843 to 18.53 tlie average yearly mortality was 1 i)er 900 of inhabitants. l''iG. 3.—Mortality of tj-phoid fever in Berlin after water was filtered. (Seibert.)