152
SMALL POX.
Seventy-two cases were admittel for treatment-of these, 45 were males and 20
females.
According to Nationalty these were :---
Males.
Femules.
European
10
5
Chinese,
26
12
Indian,
5
1
Eurasian,
2
1)
Cingalese,
0
Japanese,
2
Chilian,
45
Variety of Small Pox.
The usual varieties were present in the following proportion -
20
1
Discrete.
Confluent.
Hæmorrhagic.
Males-European,
9
1
Chinese....
24
*0
Indian,
5
0
Eurasian,
2
0
0
Cingalese,
1
0
Chilian,
41
1
Females-European,
1
Chinese....
7
Indian.
1
0
Japanese,
1
11
8
1
Total.
52
11
Deaths.
The Deaths numbered eight and were:
نه
A
European-Male,
Hæmorrhagic 1
Female,
Confluent
1
Chinese :- Male,
Do.
I
Female,
Do.
Japanese-
Do.
Don
I
Chilian * Male,
Do.
1
In the case of the European who died from Hæmorrhagic Small Pox the hæmorrhagic symptoms set in on the third day, with hæmaturia, hæmoptysis and sub-conjunctival hæniorrhages and death ensued on the fifth day. These cases are invariably fatal. In the case of the European female who recovered the hæmorrhagic symptoms did not set in till the sixth day of the disease, when bleeding took place into the vesicles and hæmaturia developed. These symptoms yielded to large doses of Liq. Feri Perchlor. Of the deaths from Confluent Small Pox one was a European infant aged two months, one a Japanese age eighteen months and two were Chinese aged respectively two and seven years. these ages the disease is almost invariably fatal.
WILLIAM B. A. MOORE, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., (Ireland),
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