[First] Statistical report on the Edinburgh epidemic fever of 1843-44 / [Andrew Halliday Douglas].

  • Douglas, A. Halliday (Andrew Halliday), 1819-1908.
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[1844]
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Credit: [First] Statistical report on the Edinburgh epidemic fever of 1843-44 / [Andrew Halliday Douglas]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lapses on this date, therefore, is 17*5 for males, 11 *6 for females. 5. Subsequent to the fifteenth day the relapse occurred in 42 instances ; of these 30 were males, 12 were females, which is equivalent to 37*5 per cent, of male cases, and 20 per cent, of female cases. The inference from this calculation is threefold. 1<9^, That females relapse, mostly, at an earlier date than males. 2d, That males relapse, at a late date, nearly twice as often as females. 3(7, That the most usual date of the relapse, the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth days, is much more frequently observed in females than in males—the proportion being, of males 51*25 per cent., of females 66*6 per cent. The Date of the Relapse at the different Periods of Life,— 1. Under 10 years old there were 8 cases; namely, on the eleventh day, 1 case; on the thirteenth day, 1; on the fourteenth day, 4; on the fifteenth day, 1; on the sixteenth day, 1. The average of these dates is the thirteenth day. 2. Above 10 and under 20, there were 44 cases; namely, on the ninth day, 1 case ; on the tenth day, 2 ; on the eleventh day, 3 ; on the twelfth day, 4 ; on the thirteenth day, 8 ; on the fourteenth day, 10 ; on the fifteenth day, 8 ; on the sixteenth day, 4 ; on the seventeenth day, 4 ; on the tAventieth day, 1 ; on the twenty-first day, 1. The average of these dates is the fourteenth day. 3. Above 20 and under 30, there Avere 40 cases; namely, on the eleventh day, 1 case; on the twelfth day, 5; on the thirteenth day, 6 ; on the fourteenth day, 10 ; on the fifteenth day, 5 ; on the sixteenth day, 5 ; on the seventeenth day, 2 ; on the eighteenth day, 1 ; on the nineteenth day, 2 ; on the twenty-second day, 1 ; on the forty-eighth day, 1. The aver¬ age of these dates is the fifteenth day. 4. Above 30 and under 40, there were 21 cases; namely, on the thirteenth day, 3 cases ; on the fourteenth day, 10 ; on the fifteenth day, 4; on the sixteenth day,-1; on the eighteenth day, 1 ; on the nineteenth day, 1; on the twenty-seventh day, 1. The average of these dates is the fifteenth day. 5. Above 40 and under 50, there Avere 14 cases; namely, on the tenth day, 1 case ; on the thirteenth day, 3 ; on the fifteenth day, 2 ; on the sixteenth day, 2; on the seventeenth day, 1 ; on the eighteenth day, 1 ; on the tAventy-sixth day, 1. The average of these dates is the tAvelfth day. 6. Above 50 and under 60, there were 9 cases; namely, on the fourteenth day, 2 cases ; on the fifteenth da}^ 1; on the sixteenth day, 1 ; on the eighteenth day, 1 ; on the nineteenth day, 2 ; on the tAventy-second day, 1; on the tAventy-eighth day, 1. The average of these dates is the eighteenth day. 7. Above 60 and under 70, there Avas 1 case, Avliich relapsed on the seventeenth day. From these avcivages. there a])pears to