A history of the disease usually called typhoid fever : as it has appeared in Georgetown and its vicinity, with some reflections as to its causes and nature / by W.L. Sutton.

  • William Loftus Sutton
Date:
1850
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Credit: A history of the disease usually called typhoid fever : as it has appeared in Georgetown and its vicinity, with some reflections as to its causes and nature / by W.L. Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ARTICLE 1. CAUSES AGE, SEX, RACE, AND PERIOD OF RESIDENCE- Age, recency of residence and contagion are the circum- stances enumerated by Louis and Bartlett as of most im- portance as causes of typhoid fever. I shall append a table of cases, which I have seen during the last twelve months, which will show age, sex, and color of each pa- tient. It will be seen, that of forty-three cases, twenty- six are between fifteen and thirty years; nine over thirty; and eight under fifteen. The table shows twenty-seven males, and sixteen fe- males; thirty whites; thirteen blacks. A superficial ex- amination of this table would perhaps convey a very er- roneous impression. It will be observed, that of the twenty-nine cases originally mine, eighteen were whites; eleven blacks; of these three whites and no black died. On the other hand, of the fourteen, whom I saw se- condarily, twelve were whites and two blacks; of whom five whites and both blacks died. Consultations are more apt to be held over whites than blacks; therefore the pro- portion of deaths amongst the whites, in the number seen is unduly large. For the same reason, fewer blacks over whom consultations are held recover. Thus both of those mentioned died. For this reason, I think the cases originally mine, are the proper basis for our estimates. It may be proper to state, that the proportion of whites to blacks, within the bounds of my observations, is about 108 to 100. I had supposed there was a majority of blacks, but
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