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
- 1 August 1928
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Epidemiology and Infection
- Vol. 28 (2) , 147-162
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022172400009517
Abstract
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.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Should Scarlet Fever Isolation be Less Rigorous?The Lancet Healthy Longevity, 1928
- THE INFLUENCE OF ISOLATION ON THE DIPHTHERIA ATTACK- AND DEATH-RATESBiometrika, 1915
- VARIATIONS IN THE AGE-INCIDENCE OF MORTALITY FROM CERTAIN DISEASES.*1The Lancet, 1907