Influenza : $b An epidemiologic studyVaughan, Warren T. (Warren Taylor)
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Influenza : $b An epidemiologic study
Vaughan, Warren T. (Warren Taylor)
Influenza
When the sexes were compared in different age groups, the female was
found to be higher than the male in each age period except under 5, 10
to 14, 40 to 44, and 70 to 74. The excess of incidence in males in these
groups is relatively small, and is hardly significant in the highest age
groups, where the rates are computed from small figures. Frost found the
most striking excess of incidence in females occurring between the ages
of fifteen and forty, the difference between the sexes being relatively
slight in age periods above and below these limits. Females over the age
of fifteen and especially between the ages of 15 and 45 were either more
susceptible to infection, or more generally and more intimately exposed
than males of corresponding age.
Our own records by the different age groups were remarkably similar. We
have found an excess among the females in every age except under five
years, 10 to 14, 50 to 54, and 60 to 64. In 1920 we found a slight
excess among the males up to the age of 15, and again at the ages 55 to
65. Females predominated in all other ages (Chart XVII). Among those
individuals who had attacks of influenza during both epidemics females
again predominated except in the ages under 5 years, 10 to 14 and 55 to
59. In our own results we find that ages above 65 show a predominance of
females.
After considering both series of results it is safe to generalize in
saying that above the age of 15 the female sex tends to acquire the
disease in slightly greater proportion than the male sex.
Chart XV shows the predominance of the female incidence in both
epidemics.
CHART XVII.
[Illustration: Influenza 1918–19 Case Rate per 100 persons by age
periods
Influenza 1920 Case Rate per 100 persons by age periods
Influenza 1918–19 Case Rate per 100 persons by sex and age
Influenza 1920 Case Rate per 100 persons by sex and age]
CHART XVIII.
[Illustration: Distribution of 1918–19 cases according to severity
Distribution of 1920 cases according to severity
Changes in 1920 severity distribution as compared with 1918 [both
sexes]]
CHART XIX.
[Illustration: District 1 Influenza 1918–19 Case Rate per 100 persons by
age periods
District 2 Influenza 1918–19 Case Rate per 100 persons by age periods
District 3 Influenza 1918–19 Case Rate per 100 persons by age periods]
[Illustration: District 4 Influenza 1918–19 Case Rate per 100 persons by
age periods
District 5 Influenza 1918–19 Case Rate per 100 persons by age periods
District 6 Influenza 1918–19 Case Rate per 100 persons by age periods]
CHART XX.
[Illustration: District 1 Influenza 1918–19 Case Rate per 100 persons by
sex and age
District 2 Influenza 1918–19 Case Rate per 100 persons by sex and age
District 3 Influenza 1918–19 Case Rate per 100 persons by sex and age]
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