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

  • Arthur Newsholme
Date:
1898
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Credit: Epidemic diptheria; a research on the origin and spread of the disease from an international standpoint. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    DTPHTHERLA. per 100,000 in 1868 to 357 in 1877. The high death-rate in 1877 represented the acme of a great epidemic in 1876-79. Following on this were smaller epidemics in 188], in 1886-90, and in 1895 (Fig. 3). BOSTON. (Population : 1870—250,500 ; 1890—448,400.) Fig. 2. New Yore:.—The death-rate from diphtheria plus croup was at its lowest (69 x) in 1873, and at its highest (276) in 1877, a year earlier than in Providence, and two to three years earlier than the corresponding maximum in Boston. 1 Where not otherwise stated the deaths are all given in their proportion to 100,000 of the population. The scale on all the diagrams gives the death-rate per 1,000 of the population.