Report upon the outbreak of plague on the Witwatersrand : March 18th to July 31st, 1904 / Rand Plague Committee.

  • South Africa. Rand Plague Committee.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Report upon the outbreak of plague on the Witwatersrand : March 18th to July 31st, 1904 / Rand Plague Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Put in tabular form these figures may be thus represented :— TABLE VI. Cases. Places. Proportion. Ist Portion .. 65 33 L939 Sea ( 4] 9 4°55 : 1 | 24 24 [et 2nd Portion .. 48 | 39 1-25 Sd | 15 6 2°5 1 eas 33 yea Adding these together, we get during the whole of the outbreak :— TABLE VIL. Cases. Places. Proportion. 113 72 1S 5G ak | D6 15 eid er | D7 57 leet THE CLINICAL ASPECTS OF THE DISEASE. There is little to be said concerning the clinical aspects of the disease as it occurred in Johannesburg. In the first place the number of cases was comparatively small as compared with the Cape Colony or even Natal. In the next place it was impossible under the circum- stances, to arrange for one Medical man to be in charge of the Plague Camp during the whole of the period. Further, very few of the pneumonic cases ever'reached the Plague Hospital. and of those who arrived there, several died almost immediately after admission, The bubonic cases were in no way uncommon. ‘The mortality very nearly approximated the mortality of other outbreaks, the distribution of the buboes, the onset, the history of the bubo and so on, differed in no material points from the already published descriptions of thes« several features. As regards the pneumonic cases, except in a few instances, no histories of the onset coulc be obtained because the patients were moribund by the time they were first medically treated Of the few who were’seen before the disease really developed, the average clinical history is as follows :—
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