File:The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine (1906) (14570817289).jpg

Identifier: americanjournroen07ameruoft (find matches)
Title: The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Radium Society American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Radiotherapy X-rays
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. C.C. Thomas
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
atically inthe Observation Ward for Infectious Dis-eases at this Hospital. The patient, a corpsman, gave a history of short onset, distinc-tive of an acute nasopharyngeal infection,except that it was more intense, and diedtwo days after admission with a left-sidedbronchopneumonia. Thereafter cases appeared with greatregularity, the number steadily mounting, asshown from the daily survey in Table i,until it reached its crest on October 9, 1918.On that day, there were 650 cases of influ- enza in the hospital. Then came a sharp de-cline which continued throughout the monthof November, with a secondary rise, appar-ently temporary in character, during themonth of December, 1918. Analyzing the number of admissions ac-cording to months, we find the following: Admissions fromSeptember 15 to October I, 1918October i to November i, 1918November i to December i, 1918December i to January i, 1919January I to February i, 1919 .February i to March i, 1919 Influenza 420 1066 85 256 198 53 Total 2078
Text Appearing After Image:
Coincident with the influenza cases, thenumber of pneumonias presenting them-selves were thus, divided according to theadmission diagnosis; BronchoPneumonia September 15 to October i, 1918 58October i to November i, 1918 199November i to December i, 1918 21December i to January i, 1919 256January I to February I, 1919 53February i to March I, 1919 2 Total 589 Lobar _Pneumonia 6 23o2oI 32 The mortality rate varied with the rate ofadmission and time of the year. Thus it isreadily seen that during the height and viru-lence of the epidemic, the deaths entirelydue to the complicating pneumonia or itssequellae were greatest in September andOctober, gradually diminishing in Novem-ber, December and January. The three cases admitted during Februaryhad been sick for a long while before admis-Table I. Daily Admissions of Influenza Cases, sion; hence the high mortality. *Read at Twentieth Annual Meeting of The American Rob.vtges Ray Society, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Sept. 3-6, 1919- 109 no Clinic

Note About Images