A contribution to the natural history of scarlatina derived from observations on the London epidemic of 1887-1888, being a dissertation for the degree of doctor of medicine in the University of Oxford / by D. Astley Gresswell.

  • Gresswell, Astley.
Date:
1890
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Credit: A contribution to the natural history of scarlatina derived from observations on the London epidemic of 1887-1888, being a dissertation for the degree of doctor of medicine in the University of Oxford / by D. Astley Gresswell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table k.—Age- and sex-distribution of the scarlatinal patients admitted into the Board's hospitals during the year 1887. Age-groups. Males. Females. Totals. u nuer 5 y Sit; *. \^ J w 5 to 9 ... I 212 1265 2477 10 to 14 ... 466 502 968 15 to 19 ... 218 197 415 20 to 24 ... 84 113 197 25 to 29 ... 45 45 90 30 to 34 ... 23 27 50 3.1 to 39 ••• 11 15 26 40 to 44 ... 5 9 14 45 to 49 ... 2 5 7 50 to 54 ... I 5 6 And upwards Totals 2902 2998 5900 Most of the admissions to hospital took place, as already shown, in the latter part of the year: those admitted during the last five months having formed 75-8 per cent., and those admitted during September, October, and November 55-7 per cent, of the total number admitted. The maximum number of scarlatinal patients under treatment on any one day was reached on November 33rd, the number then being 2611. It has been indicated above that the abolition of the necessity for obtaining an order from the Relieving Officer may have resulted in increase of the number of persons admitted into the Board's hospitals afterwards : it may have resulted also in attracting to the hospitals persons in better circumstances ; but it would appear that there was no sensible change in this respect, the patients under the charge of the Board having been in chief part, as previously, of the poorest of the London population.