Annual report for the year 1903 (6th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
- Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England)
- Date:
- 1904
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Annual report for the year 1903 (6th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Of 716 completed cases, 610 were treated with antitoxin. The treatment following table shows the results of the antitoxin treatment with special reference to the day of disease on which the treatment began:— Day of Disease on which Treatment began. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. 4th. 5th. Total. <0 . sc >-> a ** Ages. W *ai « h Cases. Deaths. Cases. Deaths. 1 Cases. ! Deaths. Cases. Deaths. i Cases. Deaths. Cases. Deaths. o> ig: Under 1 . 0 0 2 0 3 0 2 2 2 1 9 3 33-3 1 to 2 . 4 0 5 0 10 4 9 2 12 4 40 10 25-0 2 to 3 . 7 0 11 0 16 5 14 4 21 5 69 14 20-2 3 to 4 . 2 0 20 2 19 6 7 0 22 2 70 10 14-2 4 to 5 . 0 0 16 2 21 3 14 2 27 6 78 13 16-6 5 to 10 ... . 5 0 65 2 66 12 45 6 64 9 245 29 11*8 10 to 15 . 2 0 12 0 23 0 18 2 13 2 68 4 5-8 15 to 20 . 0 0 7 0 7 0 1 0 2 0 17 0 o-o 20 and upwards 0 0 3 0 5 0 2 0 4 0 14 0 0-0 Total . 20 0 141 6 170 30 112 18 167 29 610 83 13-6 Percentage h Mortality i 0-0 4-2 17*6 16-07 17-3 13-6 • * * Tor the purpose of comparison I give the results of the antitoxin treatment here for the seven years 1897 to 1903 inclusive (the figures in brackets are the total number of cases) :— 1897. 1898. 1899. 1900. 1901. 1902. 1903. Of cases [187] treated on 1st day of disease the mortality per cent, was 0*0 0*0 0*0 0*0 0*0 0*0 0*0 „ [H86] „ [1233] „ [963] „ [1260] 55 59 59 2nd 3rd 4th 5? 55 55 55 5th day and after 5*4 5*0 3*8 3*6 4*1 4*6 4*2 11*5 14*3 12*2 6*7 11*9 10*5 17*6 19*0 18*1 20*0 14*9 12*4 19*8 16.07 21*0 22*5 20*4 21*2 16*6 19*4 17*3 During the past seven years the total number of cases of diphtheria treated with antitoxin in this hospital has been 4,812. Not a single death has occurred among the cases that came under treatment on the first day of disease, and among those that came under treatment on the second day, the mortality has not exceeded 5*4 per cent., while among those that came under treatment on the third day and later the mortality is much higher. These facts show how eminently curable a disease diphtheria is if treated with antitoxin early enough, and how large a number of lives would be saved if all the cases could be put under antitoxin treatment on the first or second day of disease. Enteric Fever. The number of cases treated was 138. Of these, 97 were dis¬ charged recovered, and 13 died. The mortality was therefore 11*23 percent.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30300307_0272.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
