Lectures and essays on fevers and diphtheria, 1849 to 1879 / by Sir William Jenner.
- Date:
- 1893
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Credit: Lectures and essays on fevers and diphtheria, 1849 to 1879 / by Sir William Jenner. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![tances, the houses ^ from which more than one individual 3Cted with typhoid fever or typhus fever were brought to ) Hospital, without being able to detect any hygienic dif- ences in the condition of the people, or in the localities ;mselves to modify the exciting cause. Before concluding, it will be well summarily to repeat it in 1848 one-fourth of the cases admitted into the Hos- al had typhoid fever ; while, from thirty-four foci of typhus er, yielding 101 cases, there was brought to the Hospital 36 only a case of typhus fever and a case of typhoid fever m the same house; and during the same time, among five alities, attbrding nine cases of typhoid fever, one locality y, viz. the house from which the father and son before 3rred to were brought, yielded a case of typhoid and one of )hus fever. That in 1849, although eighteen foci of typhus er yielded fifty-one cases, and four foci of typhoid fever )rded ten cases, not a single example of the two diseases ng received into the Hospital from one house occurred, th reference to the exceptional case, I must observe, that exceptional cases to be of any value in proving the iden- T of typhus fever and typhoid fever, they nuist be met with re frequently than similar exceptional cases are met with diseases having a specific cause, universally acknowledged be different. Now, the following facts prove that, with respect to measles, rlet fever, and typhus fever, such exceptional cases are as ][uent as with respect to typhoid and typhus fevers, ring the last three years I have seen a case of typhus fever ught into the Hospital from a house in which all the children e suffering from measles; another case of typhus fever ught from a house in which the children had scarlet fever; a admitted with scarlet fever, who had been on terms of in- acy with another girl, admitted shortly before with typhoid ;r. And in these cases no direct contagion for the diseases cr which the patients laboured could be traced. It is also ortant to observe that the cases of scarlet fever admitted These houses were situated in courts or streets in the City, Bethiial n, St. Pancras, and Holborn. I visited too few and made too imperfect ries to draw any strict inferences, but my general impression is stated](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2192272x_0173.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
