Report of Dr. Sidney Coupland on the outbreak of small-box in the Dewsbury Union in 1891-2.

  • Sidney Coupland
Date:
1894
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Credit: Report of Dr. Sidney Coupland on the outbreak of small-box in the Dewsbury Union in 1891-2. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    TABLE LXXXVI. Area of Scars. Class A'. Class A2. Class A\ Class A'. Total. Cases. Deaths. Cases. Deaths. Cases. Deaths. Cases. Deaths. Cases. Deaths. Under 1 yeav - 10 1 ! to .5 years - 5 16 5 to ] 0 „ - 10 17 1 27 1 ]0 t,o 15 „ - 32 7 25 64 15 to 20 „ - 41 1 1 55 1 97 2 20 to 30 „ - 91 9 106 3 210 3 30 to 40 „ - 47 2 5 1 67 4 126 7 40 to 50 „ - 13 3 30 1 48 : 50 to 60 „ - 7 1 1 14 1 22 2 60 to 70 „ - 1 6 8 70 and over 1 2 Age not ascertained 6 6 246 3 27 1 17 1 337 11 627 16 In the above Table (LXXXVI.) the figures are assigned under each age-period, and the per-centage proportions may be summarised thus:— Under 10 Years. 10 to 30 Years. 30 Years and over. At all Ages. Per cent. Per cent. Per cent. Per cent. Class Ai 88-2 88-6 76-1 84-8 Class A- - . - 9-1 11-3 9-3 Class A3 11-8 2-1 12-5 5-8 Number, Foveation, and Area combined.—It is, however, on a combination of each of the.^ie characters that the most accurate e.stimate of the character of vaccination may ha held to depend; and the figures given in Table LXXXIII. supply the means for such an analysis. It will hs found on reference to this table that of the 48(' cases in which one or other of these particulars were noted; in 2/1 the area, number, and character are given ; in 139 the number and character; in 15 the area and number; in 1 the area and character; whilst in 46 the number alone ; in 3 the area alone; and in 15 the character alone. Only two fatal cases occur amongst the 271, of which all details are known; and the largest group, that of Class A', having 227 cases, had no fatal case; one death occurred in Class A^, at age 15-20, with two foveate marks; the other, in Class A'', at age 30-40, with two smooth marks. The accompanying table ('i'abie LXXXVII.) gives an analysis of thc^e 27i cases, e.'Etracted from the larger table already given : —