Epidemic diptheria; a research on the origin and spread of the disease from an international standpoint.

  • Arthur Newsholme
Date:
1898
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    disease was imported by passengers who were landing every week at Melbourne from England, where a great epidemic was raging. The first recorded fatal case in Melbourne, he states, occurred in October, 1858, and up to the end of that year only six fatal cases were recorded in the colony. Mr. Thomson quotes official statistics Death- g | rate per £° I 1000. VICTORIA. QUEENSLAND. Fig. 41. for the colony, going back to 1853. These] show that, from 1853 onwards, the annual deaths from croup num- bered 32 (sis months of 1853), 72, 53, 69, 56, 102, 229, 156, 166, the last number being for the year 1861. Diphtheria first appeared in the returns in 1859. A writer in the Australian Medical Journal, during 1857,