Reports for the year 1892 of the statistical committee and the medical superintendents of the infectious hospitals and imbecile asylums, also of the ambulance & training ship "Exmouth" committees (7th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England). Statistical Committee.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Reports for the year 1892 of the statistical committee and the medical superintendents of the infectious hospitals and imbecile asylums, also of the ambulance & training ship "Exmouth" committees (7th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The relation of age and sex to mortality is clearly indicated by the above table. The disease is most fatal to children under five years of age, and notably so to infants in the first and second years of life. The total mortality of males is greater than that of females by 1*3 per cent. Up to five years of age the liability of either sex to be attacked appears to be nearly equal, but after that age a greater immunity is enjoyed by the male sex. Summary of Table V. (p. 90-3) shows the complications observed amongst the scarlet fever cases under treatment during the past year. The most common were the following (the figures in brackets indicate the percentage of cases on the total number under treatment) :— Measles (1*8), rheumatism (2*6), tonsillitis (2*0), albuminuria (10T), acute nephritis (2*9), rhinitis (6*1), otitis (8*8), and adenitis, (9*3). Diphtheria was also observed in 1*3 per cent, of the cases, and a diphtheritic condition of the fauces in 0*8 per cent. Summary of Table VI, (p. 95) shows the admissions and deaths at various ages of diphtheria cases during the past year. The following table is a summary of the tables in this and the previous annual Deports for 1888, 1889, 1890, and 1891 Diphtheria.—Table C—Showing Mortality at various ages of 5,084 cases admitted into the Board's Hospitals in the years 1888 to 1892. AGES. Males. Females. Total. Cases Admitted. Died. Mortality per cent. Cases Admitted. Died. Mortality per cent. Cases Admitted. Died. Combined Mortality per cent. Under 1 ... 57 35 61-4 49 30 61*2 106 65 61*3 1 to 2 144 97 67-4 137 88 64*2 281 185 65-8 2 to 3 199 124 62-3 221 133 60-2 420 257 61*2 3 to 4 ... 254 131 * 51-6 276 136 49-3 530 267 50*4 4 to 5 .., 245 109 44*5 329 148 45-0 574 257 44-8 Total under 5 899 496 55-2 1,012 535 52-9 1,911 1,031 54-0 5 to 10 10 to 15 ] 5 to 20 20 to 25 25 to 30 30 to 35 35 to 40 40 to 45 45 to 50 50 to 55 55 to 60 And upwards Totals Diphtheria, like scarlet fever, is most fatal to infant children. The maximum mortality occurs in the second year of life, when it reaches the high percentage of 65*8, subsequently falling with every additional