ACUTE APPENDICITIS IN PHILADELPHIA
- 17 March 1934
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 102 (11) , 813-816
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1934.02750110003002
Abstract
The reports of the original and subsequent surveys with a description of the plan for the reduction of the mortality of acute appendicitis, as carried out in Philadelphia, were published in 1927,11931,2and 1932.3 Dr. J. Norman Henry, director of the department of public health, with the cooperation of Dr. W. G. Turnbull, superintendent of the Philadelphia General Hospital, made this year's survey possible. The Philadelphia County Medical Society, the College of Physicians, the staffs and superintendents of the various hospitals and the Philadelphia Association of Retail Druggists cooperated with the department of public health in the campaign to reduce the time between the onset of symptoms and hospitalization and to prevent the administration of laxatives. The sticker warning was not distributed to the physicians of Philadelphia as in previous campaigns but, with the help of Drs. E. C. Broom and W. S. Cornell of theKeywords
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