The medical complications, accidents and sequels of typhoid fever and other exanthemata / by Hobart Amory Hare ... and E.J.G. Beardsley ... with a special chapter on the mental disturbances following typhoid fever, by F.X. Dercum ... with 26 illustrations and 2 plates.

H. A. Hare

Date:: [1909], [©1909]

Credit: The medical complications, accidents and sequels of typhoid fever and other exanthemata / by Hobart Amory Hare ... and E.J.G. Beardsley ... with a special chapter on the mental disturbances following typhoid fever, by F.X. Dercum ... with 26 illustrations and 2 plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$These tables, as to mortality, are supported bv tlie statement of Billings, that in Norway from 1888 to 1891 the mortality from typhoid fever was 755 in 74G7 cases, or less than 10 per cent. In the ]\Iaiilstone epidemic the death-rate in 1885 cases was only 7.5 per cent., and a similar mortality obtained at Plymouth, Pa. The death-rate in the Worthing epidemic of about lOCO cases was 13 per cent. Fig. 7 ANNUAL DEATHS PERCENT 00 00 CO CC 00 o CO 5i CO CM o 00 CO CO CO in CO GO CO 00 at Ol CO o o 5 Ol CM O CO o Ol o Ol o en o Ol o Ol 41 A 40 A 39 / \ 38 / \ 37 / \ 36 / \ 35 / \ 34 / \ 33 \ / \ 32 \ A ' \ 31 \ A / \ 30 \ , r ^ \ y 29 V V \ 28 Y V ^\ 27 \ 26 I 25 \ 24 \ 23 V, 22 \ 21 \ / 20 \ 19 \ 18 ) fs 17 \ r s 16 \ 1 15 V / 14 **>»- -4 Chart showing decreasing death-rate from typhoid fever in New York City. Bryant^ states that out of 608 cases treated in Guy's Hospital from 1879 to 1893, 14 per cent. died. Again, in the Gazette Medicale des Hopitaux of July 10, 1890, we learn that a collective investigation in France showed that, whereas in the period from 1866 to 1881 the mortality from typhoid I Bryant. Guy's Hospital Reports, 1893.$