The Schick Status of 18,000 Young Adult Males
- 16 June 1949
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 240 (24) , 954-959
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm194906162402402
Abstract
THE incidence of diphtheria in the United States as a whole declined from 1924 to 1945. However, in 1945 there were 18,606 cases of the disease — a larger number than had been reported since 1939. The various sections of the country did not share alike in this increase. Table 1, which presents the cases during the period 1939–1947, shows that in New England, for example, the number of cases reported in 1946 was approximately three times that reported in 1943. In the Mountain states, on the other hand, the reported cases varied relatively little. The average annual case rates, also . . .Keywords
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