The prevention of epidemics : and the construction and management of isolation hospitals / by Roger McNeill, M.D. Edin.
- McNeill, Roger.
- Date:
- 1894
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The prevention of epidemics : and the construction and management of isolation hospitals / by Roger McNeill, M.D. Edin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![Typhus Fever London Fever Hospital, 1848-1870 Ages. Admissions. Deaths. Percentage of Total Admissions.1 Mortality per cent of Admissions at Same Age. Under 5 234 15 I.29 6.69 5-9 I I96 43 6.59 3-59 10-14 2 189 50 I2.o6 2.28 15-19 2932 131 16.16 4.46 20-24 24OO 248 13-23 10.33 25-29 1727 262 9.52 15.17 3o-34 I5I8 312 8.36 20.55 35-39 1458 378 8.03 25.92 40-44 I507 464 8.30 30.79 45-49 IO39 442 5.72 42.54 50-54 790 392 4-35 49.62 55-59 441 238 2.42 53-96 60-64 400 241 2.20 60.25 65-69 188 142 1.03 75-53 70-74 84 61 .46 72.62 75-79 32 27 •17 84.37 80 and 1 upwards J 3 3 .01 100. Age not ) specified ] 130 8 6.15 Totals . 18,268 3457 18.92 In typhoid fever, again, the death-rate among child- ren under ten years of age is less than half that among adults over thirty. Children are, however, very liable to contract this disease if they come in the way of infection, whereas persons of maturer years are less susceptible to it. That is to say, if an equal number of children and of persons of mature years were exposed equally to the infection of typhoid fever, the vast majority of the children would contract the disease, whereas the vast majority of the adults would suffer no 1 In reckoning the percentage of admissions at different ages, the 130 cases in which the age is not specified are deducted from the total.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21013792_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
