Diphtheria : its natural hstory and prevention being the Milroy Lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1891 / by R. Thorne Thorne.
- Thorne R. Thorne (Richard Thorne), Sir, 1841-1899.
- Date:
- 1891
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Diphtheria : its natural hstory and prevention being the Milroy Lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1891 / by R. Thorne Thorne. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![With respect to the special incidence on the earlier months of the fourth quarter, I would quote the following extract from Dr. Buchanan’s report on the proceedings of the Medical Department of the Local Government Board during the year 1883.1 “ In several of the reports [on diphtheria] that have been made to me during recent years, inspectors have recorded an increase of its activity manifested about the end of the month of October; apparently independent of, and sometimes even overshadowing, other influences concerned with the disease. Mr. Power, in his Tichmarsh report, has occasion to direct especial attention to this circumstance.” In the Tichmarsh report1 Mr. Power records that suddenly, towards the end of October, “ diphtheria and fatal diphtheria raged in the village,” that the facts of this sudden exacerbation were not consistent with the belief that it was due to any such influence as school attend- ance, which, in so far as it operated, was an influence “largely subordinate to some other and essential factor of diphtheria,” and he refers to October and November as constituting “ the well-known season of normal extra activity of diphtheria.” Sex.—On the influence of sex as a predisposing cause of diphtheria, not much accurate information is available. In some of my own investigations I have found some preponderance of attacks amongst females. This was the case, for example, at Great Coggeshall in 1876, but the excess had essentially to do with females 1 Annual Report of the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board for 1883 [C—4220]. 1884. D](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21720137_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
