A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2): From the Extinction of Plague to the Present TimeCreighton, Charles
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A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2): From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time
Creighton, Charles
Epidemics -- Great Britain -- History
Thus, at Glasgow Infirmary, from 1835 to 1839, there were 4202 cases
with eruption, 1270 without eruption, and 143 doubtful. And, that the
cases without eruption were not cases of enteric or typhoid, is
probable from the record kept of the fatalities in Dr Anderson’s
fever-wards[369]:
In 1885 cases with eruption, 275 deaths, or 14·58 per cent.
" 324 cases without eruption, 11 deaths, or 3·33 per cent.
" 143 cases doubtful, 7 deaths, or 4·89 per cent.
At Aberdeen, Kilgour counted 59 cases spotted in a total of 189 in
1838, 96 in a total of 286 in 1839, and 278 in a total of 534 in 1840,
all the cases, whether spotted or not, being of the same fever, which
he considered an exanthematous malady as a whole. Of 169 cases
tabulated by Craigie at Edinburgh, from 28 June, 1836, to 12 February,
1837, there were 79 with an eruption, which was usually the mottled or
rubeoloid rash.
The fatalities were relatively more in Edinburgh than in Dundee, comparing
two periods which were not the same. Of 700 cases at Dundee, from June,
1836, to June, 1837, only 50 died, or 1 in 14, notwithstanding a good many
complications from chest complaints and bowel complaints[370]. At
Edinburgh during fifteen months of 1838-39, there died 276 in 2037 cases,
or 1 in 7·3; of those cases, 1075 were in females, with 116 deaths, or 1
in 9, and 962 males, with 160 deaths, or 1 in 6[371]. The most common age
for the fever at Dundee was from twenty to forty years (416 out of 700
cases, with 26 deaths, or 1 in 16), while the most fatal age, as usual,
was from forty to sixty years, at which one person died of three attacked.
At Aberdeen, in the last year of the epidemic, the years of life from ten
to twenty had more cases (233 in a total of 657) than any other decade of
life. The average stay of a patient in the Aberdeen fever-wards was 18·67
days. The great preponderance of deaths in adolescents or adults was
clearly shown in the Glasgow fever-statistics, 1835-39.
Fever-deaths per cent.
Deaths from Under Over of deaths from
typhus fever ten years ten years all causes
4788 752 4036 11·57
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