Acute rheumatism in children in its relation to heart disease.

Date:
1927
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Credit: Acute rheumatism in children in its relation to heart disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    returns unless we remember that, although the immediate mortality is small, the ultimate mortality may be deferred ten, twenty or thirty years. In the main, therefore, we have to rely upon estimates of incidence in three classes of children. I. School children actually in attendance at elementary schools and examined either at routine or special examinations. Il. Invalid or semi-invalid children (a) at special schools for physically defective children ; (6b) absent from school for long periods, or (c) referred to the Invalid Children’s Aid Association. Many of these invalid children will be recorded both in (a) or (b) and in (c). Ill. Acutely ill children admitted to (a) general, (6) children’s, (c) poor law hospitals. In the first class, children in attendance at school, we naturally find but few cases of arthritis; the condition is obvious and respected, and the child affected kept in bed or taken to hospital. bff to snide 100 9:0] 8-0 70 6.0) 5'O PERCENTAGES. 40 3°0 2 O- 1:0 3-4 45 5-6 6-7 7-8 8-9 9-10 10-1111-1212-13 AGE INCIDENCE OF ALL RHEUMATIC INFECTIONS IN SCHOOL CHILDREN. Chart showing percentages of London school children found to be definitely rheumatic at medical examination in school. (After Langmead, L.C.C. M.O.’s Report, 1910, p. 135.)