Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-rcrh6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-24T23:16:37.226Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Cerebro-Spinal Fever in Glasgow, 1929

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

R. J. Peters  and
W. C. Gunn
R. J. Peters
Affiliation:
(Public Health Department, Glasgow.)
W. C. Gunn
Affiliation:
(Public Health Department, Glasgow.)
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

In 1929, for the third time in the present century, cerebrospinal fever occurred in Glasgow in epidemic form. The first epidemic, which was by far the most severe, was in 1906–8, the total number of cases recorded being 1363. Descriptions of the events of these years were given by Dr A. K. Chalmers (1906) in the Annual Reports of the Medical Officer of Health of Glasgow for 1906 and 1907, and also in a paper read before the Epidemiological Society. In this outbreak the fatality rate of cases treated in hospital was given as 74·8 per cent. by Currie and Macgregor (1908). The total number of cases admitted to hospital was 910. The incidence of the disease was highest during the months of January to May of 1907, and there was a slight recrudescence in the same months of the following year. The characteristics of the epidemic form of cerebro-spinal fever were present in so far as there occurred several instances of multiple infection in the same house, and a number of cases showed the exanthem peculiar to the disease.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , November 1930 , pp. 420 - 432
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1930

References

REFERENCES

Burton, and Chalmers, (1930). Lancet, 1, 296. London.Google Scholar
Chalmers, A. K. (1906–1907). Trans. Epidemiol. Soc. N.S. 26. London.Google Scholar
Crookshank, F.G.(1922). Influenza: Essays by Several Authors. London: Heinemann.Google Scholar
Currie, and Macgregor, (1908). Lancet, 2, 1073. London.Google Scholar
Flexner, (1928). J. Amer. Med. Assoc. 91, 21.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gardiner, (1928). Brit. Med. J. 2, 1176.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Halliday, (1929). Medical Officer, 41, 15, 155. London.Google Scholar
Hamar, (1928). Epidemiology, Old and New. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.Google Scholar
Horder, (1915). Cerebro-spinal Fever. London: Oxford Univ. Press.Google Scholar
Maclagan, and Cooke, (1916). Lancet, 2, 1054. London.Google Scholar
Marlow, (1929). J. Amer. Med. Assoc. 92, 619.CrossRefGoogle Scholar