Influenza : $b An epidemiologic studyVaughan, Warren T. (Warren Taylor)
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Influenza : $b An epidemiologic study
Vaughan, Warren T. (Warren Taylor)
Influenza
“On January 3d, Mrs. N. again fell ill with ‘a bad cold,’ attended with
headache, backache and epistaxis. She was in bed two days and felt
miserable and prostrate for more than a week after. On January 5th, Mr.
N., her husband, had headache, backache, and general soreness ‘all
over.’ On January 10th, the boy, aged four, who was first attacked after
his mother’s return from London, again became ill, his symptoms being
the same as before. The only other remaining member of the family who
had managed to escape an attack of ‘cold’ up to this date, was said to
have felt ill the day the boy had his second attack; but the illness of
this individual was slight, and only caused suffering for one night.
Thus between the return of the mother on November 23d and January 10th
all the inmates of this house, nine in number, had an attack of illness,
evidently of the same nature. A boy who works in Mr. N.’s yard was taken
ill with influenza about the end of November. He lives in the village.
After his illness his four brothers also were ill. Dr. Walker says that
‘about the end of November’ cases of like illness were beginning to crop
up in East Keal. Mrs. W., the wife of the village grocer and baker, who
waited on customers in the shop and never left the shop or house, was
taken ill on the afternoon of November 30th. Next morning, December 1st,
her husband and six children were all attacked in the same way with what
is now recognized to have been marked influenza. The only inmate of the
house who escaped was a youth employed to deliver bread and groceries in
a cart in the neighboring village.”
Leichtenstern relates that a physician traveling from Berlin on the 10th
of December became sick in his home town, Elgesburg, on the 8th of
December, but he made several visits and a few days later those people
seen by him fell sick, while otherwise there were no cases of influenza
in the town or its neighborhood. These cases would probably have fallen
in Group C., of Murphy’s classification.
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