PNEUMONIA IN PRIVATE PRACTICE

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Much has been written in recent times concerning pneumonia especially as regards the incidence of the various types of pneumococcic pneumonia and their amenability to serum therapy. When compared, these reports have shown a rather striking consistency both in the incidence of pneumococcus types and in the results obtained with specific treatment. However, these studies have been based largely on material observed in large city hospitals such as Bellevue and Harlem hospitals in New York and the Boston City Hospital. So far as we know, there have been no modern studies published on pneumonia in private practice. The impression seems to be general, however, that the death rate for pneumonia in private practice is considerably lower than it is in large city hospitals. While in hospital wards the fatality rate may run from 30 to 35 per cent, one often hears practitioners assert that in private practice they rarely lose

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