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DIPHTHERIA 



whole report should be read carefully ; but there 

 is room here for nothing more than the latter part 

 of it. This is given at length. 



A 



Table showing the General Mortality of cases treated^ on the same 

 day of the disease, with and without Antitoxin. 



Antitoxin Committee: 

 C33 Cases treated with Antitoxin. 



Metropolitan Asylums Board, 

 1894: 



3042 Cases treated without 

 Antitoxin. 



CD 



bp 

 0 



CD 



"5 

 CD 



g 

 CD 

 U 



s 



12.5 

 16.2 

 14.4 



1 1.6 

 5-3 



Day of the 

 Disease on 



which 

 Treatment 

 was begun. 



CO 



CD 



CO 



c<J 

 O 



GO 

 A 



a 

 fi 



>> . 



$ s 



U r. 



0 © 



Day of 

 Admission 

 to Hospital. 



CD 

 CO 

 « 

 O 



CO 



Is 



CD 



A 



H 

 P 



O CD 



ISt 



2nd 

 3rd 

 4th 

 5 th 

 and after. 



20 

 92 



133 

 I30 

 258 



2 

 IO 

 20 

 26 



66 



10.0 

 10.8 

 15.0 

 20.0 

 25-5 



ISt 



2nd 

 3rd 

 4th 

 5 th 



133 



539 

 652 

 566 

 1 152 



30 

 146 

 192 

 179 

 355 



22.5 

 27.0 

 294 

 31.6 

 30.8 



Totals . 



633 



124 



19.5 



Totals 



3042 



902 



29.6 



10. 1 



B 



Summary and Conclusio?is of the Committers Report. 



"The material for the investigation of the 

 clinical value of the antitoxin serum in the treat- 

 ment of diphtheria was not obtained from selected, 

 but from consecutive, cases, reported from the 

 general hospitals and the fever hospitals of the 

 Metropolitan Asylums Board ; all were made use of 

 which fulfilled the requirements of the Committee. 



" The Committee rejected all cases in which 



