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Statistical Study of Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria. With special reference to (1) Changes in the Age Distribution of Mortality; (2) Effect of Isolation on the Prevalence and Mortality from Scarlet Fever

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Hilda M. Woods
Hilda M. Woods
Affiliation:
From the Division of Epidemiology and Vital Statistics. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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In the early records of mortality there was much confusion between scarlet fever and diphtheria. According to Hirsch, after scarlet fever had been clearly differentiated from measles about the middle of the eighteenth century a new error was introduced into the doctrine of scarlet fever. Emphasis was placed on the inflammatory process in the throat which frequently occurs in scarlet fever, and this led to its being confused with diphtheria.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , November 1928 , pp. 147 - 162
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1928

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