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

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umber 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 Clinical and X-Ray Study of Influenza Pneumonia
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Table II. Comparison of Admissions of Influenzas, Broncho and Lobar Pneumonias, AND Death Rate. Pneu- No. Per- mo- of cent- nias Deaths age 64 22 35 222 91 41 21 5 24 82 18 22 .S3 9 17 3 2 66 September 15 to October i, 1918October i to November i, 1918November i to December i, 1918December i to January i, 1919January i to February i, 1919February l to March i, 1919 In the study of the epidemic as it pre-sented itself at the Walter Reed GeneralHospital, it has been deemed best to analyzeit from the following points of view: 1. Acute influenza and sequellae. 2. The influenzal pneumonias from aclinical and ;ir-ray point of view. 3. Sequellae and complications. 4. Pathology and bacteriology. I. Influenza In making this survey, 700 cases of un-complicated influenza have been studied.Nearly all were in soldiers from camps inthe vicinity, for which the Walter Reed isthe post hospital. A fair proportion wasmade up of detachment men, nurses anddoctors. No one was immune. Apparently the young a

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