Increase m the Death Bate of Pneumonia ♦ 'Dr Henry Hartshorne,' Bays the Medioal Record, * has found that in the Pennsylvania Hospital, the deathrate from pneumonia has augmented Irom 6£ per oent. in the years 1845-47 to 18*1 per eent, in the years 1865--1867, and to more than 31. per oent. in 1884 86. Tbe rate of mortality of pneumonia in the large general hos-, pitala of this country JS rarely below"'; — more often above— 2s per cen^"' - which represents about the average ideath-rate from this disease in the Northern and Southern armies during ' the civil war. . ' In the ' recent retiirn§~~ . . of the. Collective Investigation Com- vl '■:. mittee of the British Medioal Assoofa**' 1 „ tion the mortality is IJB per oent^pii .^ ":* : NewlTofrk it appears that the lowi^' .";;■' mortality occurred between the yeara''-' 1 ",. ,1820 and* IBso. Thfl mortality /fwp^; ;: been rising and during thelast'decada ' \ was considerably bvstf double' th* - : ' e**lfer>p«oe*atage." .bw*.^.<4*^r -
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 91, 7 February 1889, Page 2
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150Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 91, 7 February 1889, Page 2
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