United States Naval Medical Bulletin, Volume 12U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918 - Medicine |
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Page 319 - Because of progress in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis of all kinds, the decline in the tuberculosis death rate in recent years has been most pronounced, having fallen from 200.7 Per 100,000 in 1904 to 141.6 in 1916, a decrease of nearly 30 per cent.
Page 312 - Should the physician or person previously consulted fail to receive such notice within ten days after the last...
Page 417 - THOMAS YOUNG, MD, Fellow and foreign secretary of the Royal Society, Member of the National Institute of France; A man alike eminent In almost every department of human learning. Patient of...
Page 320 - ... population. The rate for diphtheria and croup in 1900 was 43.3, and the decline of nearly 67 per cent from that year to 1916 is relatively greater than that shown by any other important cause of death. The rate fluctuated somewhat from 1900 to 1913, but has fallen continuously since the latter year. The mortality rate from typhoid fever has shown a most remarkable and highly gratifying decline since 1900, having dropped from 35.9 per 100,000 in that year to 13.3 in 1916. The .proportional decrease...
Page 320 - Deaths from diabetes numbered 12,199, or 17 per 100,000. The rate from this disease has risen almost continuously from year to year since 1900, when it was 9.7. No epidemic disease, with the exception of Influenza, produced a death rate as high as even 15 per 100,000 in 1916.
Page 319 - ... 1911 to 1915, inclusive. The lowest recorded rate for all forms of pneumonia was 127 per 100,000 in 1914. The mortality from this disease, like that from tuberculosis, has shown a marked decline since 1000, when it was 180.5 Per 100,000.
Page 320 - Diarrhea and enteritis caused 56,763 deaths in 1916, or 79.3 per 100,000. The rate from these diseases has fallen somewhat in recent years, having been 90.2 in 1913, and is very much lower than the corresponding rate for 1900, which was 133.2. Nearly fivesixths of the total number of deaths charged to these causes in 1916 were of infants under 2 years of age. Influenza was responsible for no fewer than 18,886 deaths in the registration area in 1916, or 26.4 per 100,000.
Page 321 - ... infantile paralysis declined from 2.7 per 100,000 in 1910 — the first year in which this malady was reported separately as a cause of death— to 1 per 100,000 in 1915, the decrease having been continuous from year to year except for an increase between 1911 and 1912. The rate for 1916, however, was ten times as great as that for the preceding year. Of the 26 states in the registration area in 1916, the 5 showing the highest rates reported 75 per cent of all the deaths from this cause. These...
Page 320 - This decline of nearly 59 per cent is relatively greater than that shown by any other important cause of death. The rate has not fallen continuously, but has fluctuated somewhat from year to year. Diabetes was the cause of 10,666 deaths, or 16.2 per 100,000.
Page 150 - Arsphenamine," and will supervise its manufacture, authority having been conferred on the Public Health Service by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the observance of the rules and standards become a condition of the license. The three firms which will be hereby permitted to manufacture and sell "Arsphenamine" are Dermatological Research Laboratories, of Philadelphia ; Takamine Laboratory (Inc.), of New York; and Farbwerke Hoechst Co. (Herman A. Metz Laboratory), of New York. The original patent...