Poliomyelitis in relation to the spread of infection by schools / by Frederick E. Batten.
- Batten, Frederick Eustace.
- Date:
- 1911
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Poliomyelitis in relation to the spread of infection by schools / by Frederick E. Batten. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Fic. 1.--TRASTENA SCHOOL EPIDEMIC (WICKMAN). 43%. 485. $86. 48 7 vas . ioe os O { i ly te ae 500.501 $0. re le a) xfil Vil rete XVI 20MM. ZAVI. 270. LOW. 18 VU. I3V. 459 460.461 462. ore XiX[@]} aL 27M, 43) 482.483 (BY 23. k 465. 456.467 468. 469. V 4H TOW 16 12. 23M 2BMg15M. COMA, “G72. 473 474. $75. 476 + ‘Bi OW ZVI 21M ZOU t ( | ! ! ! I | \ \ eet Vie & Ae = £92493 4H. UGS. - 455.456 457 458. Scie <--} [0 0:0 @| CHOOL. SWIG ZOU Th 8 2° 2VE SVE IOQML 19V0. 463.464 (} @ PARALYTIC FoRM y [oe}* Namen 471. 478479, 684 OAD ORT rine Vili (© © © 9} [J House. (ZV T6VE. ZOVLZ2He Inhabitants =500 . Persons affected =49 Abortive cases, 23. Paralytic cases, 23. Deaths,l1 Number of houses in village=102 Number of houses infected=19 Continuous lines=direct infection Interrupted lines= indirect infection Large Roman figures=houses in order of infection Number above houses=case numbers, the details of these cases can beBfound on refer ence tothe table whieh follows’ Figures below houses=day and month of infection. Trastena is a small community of 500 inhabitants. The first case of poliomyelitis occurred in February and March in the little village of Sandbachen, three kilometres from the town of Marienstad, ten kilometres from Trastena. Three children were attacked in the same family on February 14th, and March 4th and 6th. One of these died. The others lived and were paralysed in the lower extremities. For three months no further case occurred in this region. On May 31st and June Ist in the town of Marienstad twe children were attacked in the same house; both had paralysis of the upper and lower extremities. On June 28th the first case occurred in Trastena in an isolated house. In rapid succession 49 inhabitants were taken ill, the majority being children. In the 102 houses of Trastena there lived 132 families, and 19 houses were affected. The cases were divided as follows: There was -1 case in 6 houses, 2 cases in 3 houses, 3 cases in 5 houses, 4 cases in 3 houses, 5 cases in 2 houses.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33472129_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
