On the Epidemies of 1852-8. — ABS 
instances I attended this year, one infant which died in three 
weeks—the rash distinct ; the other died with head symp 
toms. I saw two other infants die a few weeks after theix 
mothers, and both died having discharge from the ears and 
convulsions: the affection of the ears was the only symp- 
tom in common with other cases of scarlatina. It will be 
seen by reference to the Tables that the total amount of 
deaths from scarlatina 
needs Hass Decanter tars eepriin Od 
In the year 1843 vecsesssesesccssesses 4] 
In the year 1852, and ose. Q9 
In the year 1853 .......... ir bateochusi 230 
It is very difficut to arrive at one fact, that is, the number 
of deaths according to the cases treated ; by referring to my 
memorandum I find 96 cases attended this year, exclusive 
of puerperal cases: out of these six died, or one caso in 
every sixteen treated; but if the three puerperal cases are 
added, it will make the mortality one in 102. 
I will now make an extract from an article of Dr. 
Tweedie, in the Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine, which 
will show that the deaths, numerous as they: hawe been, 
have not proportionally exceeded those in England. It is 
yery desirable that the public should know that this disease 
is not more fatal here than in other countries. 
“Tn an epidemic scarlatina, which prevailed in Paris in 
1748, we are told that every individual who was attacked 
perished ; many, indeed, within nine hours from its first 
invasion. That which raged at Bromley, near Bow, in 
Middlesex, in the year 1746, it is stated by Dr. Fothergill, 
seemed to yield to no remedies or applications ; several of 
the inhabitants were greatly alarmed by it, some losing the 
greater part of their children after a few days’ indisposition. 
These are by no means solitary examples of tho great 
fatality of scarlatina, as similar epidemic visitations haye 
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