Report of the Pellagra Commission of the State of Illinois, November, 1911.
- Illinois. Pellagra Commission.
- Date:
- 1912
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Report of the Pellagra Commission of the State of Illinois, November, 1911. 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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![The figures for the number of cases in the different instiiutions, includ- ing those at the Cook County Institutions at Dunning, have been furnished by the Superintendents of each institution, with the exception of Peona, where they are the result of data furnished by Dr. Zeller and the hospital medical staff, by Captains Nichols and Siler, and by personal observations at frequent intervals by tlie members of this commission. During the height of the pellagra seasons all patients who have previously had attacks of the disease have been examined for evidences of recurrence and upon several occasions all patients in the institution have been inspected. Visits have also been made to suspects and others at the Jacksonville, Anna. Water- town and Elgin State Hospitals. . . ■ , Table I presents the total number of cases occurring m the three periods, August, 1909, to January, 1910; January, 1910, to January, 1911 and Jan- uary 1911 to Sept. ], 1911, in so far as we have been able to collect them. Recurrent' attacks in individuals recorded as pellagrins for the preceding periods are not included a second time, so that the figures represent the actual number of persons attacked. Table I. Institution. 1909. 1910. 1911. Total. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. .\nna State Hospital Elgin State Hospital Jaclcsonville State Hospital. KankaV-ee State Hospital... Peoria State Hospital.... -. - Watertown State Hospital.. Chester State Hospital.. ... Lincoln State School and Col- ony tDunnmgC. I. ....---- Cook County Hospital Elsewhere Total. 90 7 0 5 104 0 0 0 14 130 3 0 3 0 2 2 20 4 1 0 0 0 0 2 *1 *4 *42 *25 6 9 0 *1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 17 6 7 1 2 5 1 1 2 ¥ 08 SO 42 28 6 25 1 1 120 0 0 O' 38 6 3 200 0 13 0 11 138 3 0 0 38 2 3 Total. Dead.f Case mortal- ity. 208 6 38 1 12 258 3 0 0 76 408 2 12 5 128 3 30 6 3 33.3 31.6 41.7 49.6 100.0 189 39.5 75.0 50.0 46.3 * r.„» wfl<! admitted to the hospital with the disease fully developed. See Table II. t ?Vith the eSion of those for Dunning the numbers given in this column include all deaths in n^^aS^^e^to^iS to ^^^^^^^^ were totals only. It was Ij---.^^^^^^^ he lexesTfre equally allected and hence the figures given for each sex have been estimated by dl^ idmg he total by two. It should be stated that at most of the institutions there have been pa- tients not included in the figures in this table presenting sonre suspicious aionearances not sufficiently definite in character to justify a positive diag- nosis At Peoria in 1909 there were a number of such cases and we have a list of 49 suspects in 1910. It is probable that some of them were pellagrous, whereas others certainly were not. , , . ■ In Table II is given a list of the cases outside the hospitals for the insane concerning which we have been able to obtain definite information. Dr. Ormsby has kept careful watch upon suspected cases at the Cook County Hospital, and the diagnosis has been confirmed by him m all those instances ; recorded in the table. For the sake of completeness there have also been added to this table a list of the cases which have been admitted to the hos- pitals for the insane with the disease already developed.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2398322x_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
