Epidemic diphtheria : a research on the origin and spread of the disease from an international standpoint / by Arthur Newsholme.

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

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    DIPHTHERIA. Cincinnati.—In this city the death-rate from diphtheria j)lus croup ranged in the period 1868-95 from 165 in 1890 to 50 in 1875. The diagram for this city is remarkable for the comparative smallness as well as the lateness of the rise in the decennium 1871-80. Its maximum was in 1878, as compared with 1877 in New York. Similarly in the] next decennium the maximum of diphtheria was reached in 1890, as compared with 1887 in New York. CINCINNATI. (Population : 1870—942,000 ; 1880—1,206,000.) Death- rate per 1000. Fig. 7. St. Louis.—During the period 1868-95, the death-rate from diphtheria ^Ztts croup ranged from 262 in 1887 to 26 in 1868. The epidemic in the decennium 1871-80, as judged by the combined curve for diphtheria and croup, reached its acme in 1876, earlier than in Cincinnati, con- trary to what might have been expected on the assump- tion that the disease had travelled from east to west. In