Epidemic Respiratory Disease: The pneumonias and other infections of the repiratory tract accompanying influenza and measlesOpie, Eugene L. (Eugene Lindsay)
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Epidemic Respiratory Disease: The pneumonias and other infections of the repiratory tract accompanying influenza and measles
The last four columns of the table of autopsies give the bacteriology of
the sputum during life and the bacteria found in the bronchi, in the
lungs, and in the blood of the heart after death.
=Mortality of Pneumonia Following Influenza.=—From September 6 to
December 15, 250 autopsies were performed on patients who had died with
pneumonia at the base hospital at Camp Pike, and with few exceptions
bacteriologic cultures were made from them. Although it was not possible
to perform autopsies on all who died, those which were performed afford
a fair index of all deaths, for throughout the epidemic of influenza and
its outbreak of pneumonia approximately one half of all who died were
examined after death. The relation of autopsies to deaths is shown by a
comparison by weeks of the number of deaths and number of autopsies
during the months of September and October.
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WEEK │ DEATHS │ AUTOPSIES
───────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼───────────────────────
Sept. 1–7 │ 1│ 1
Sept. 8–14 │ 1│ 1
Sept. 15–21 │ 4│ 3
Sept. 22–28 │ 15│ 14
Sept. 29–Oct. 5 │ 121│ 67
Oct. 6–12 │ 191│ 78
Oct. 13–19 │ 78│ 43
Oct. 20–27 │ 22│ 15
Oct. 28–31 │ 8│ 6
│ ———│ ———
│ 441│ 228
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