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Number of deaths
24
Males
14
Females
10
Autumn Epidemic:—End of October to December, 1918.
Total number of cases admitted
554
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230
~ ~ ~ -Females ~
324
Developed lobar pneumonia
149
~ broncho pneumonia
269
Cases showing epistaxis
28
„ „ albuminuria
111
„ developing empyema
9
~ with serious effusion
9
~ developed hyperpyrexia
3
~ showing haemoptysis
a
Number of deaths
171
Males
86
Females
85
In both epidemics the case incidence fell chiefly on males
and females between the ages of 20 and 40, who were well
developed, strong and healthy. There were also a good many
cases amongst children between 1—5 years of age.
In the summer epidemic the cases who developed
pneumonia did not with some exceptions show the same
severity as those in the Autumn epidemic. In only a few
was there any marked cyanosis and delirium, and those cases
generally ended fatally.
Pneumonia. —In the autumn epidemic a large number of
the cases who had Pneumonia showed a peculiar bluish grey
appearance of the face and other parts of the body, and the
prognosis in all these was bad. With this was always associated
extreme dyspnoea, due to the fact that both lungs
were almost invariably affected, and such cases were always
fatal.
Albuminuria. In the autumn epidemic a high percentage
of the cases, had albuminuria varying in amount from 1/6 in
some urines, to others, which on boiling became practically
solid, while in the summer epidemic the cases of albuminuria