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as not suffering from diphtheria. The incidence of actual cases in
age-groups was as follows:
1-5 yrs. 5-10 yrs. 10-15 yrs. 15-25 yrs. 25-45 yrs.
14 40 14 7 6
The following complications were observed among the cases:
No. of Cases.
Palatal paresis 12
Ciliary paralysis 3
Neck paralysis 1
Pharyngeal paralysis 2
Cardiac involvement 10
Rhinorrhoea 4
Cervical adenitis 2
Albuminuria 3
Otorrhoea 1
Two cases admitted with diphtheria were also suffering from
scarlet fever and one had measles.
The diagnoses in the non-diphtheritic cases were as follows:
Acute follicular tonsilitis 18
Laryngitis 4
Adenitis 1
Septic pharyngitis and septicaemia 1
Scarlet fever 2
Contact carrier 1
Quinsy 6
Vincent's angina 1
Pneumonia and empyema 1
Broncho-pneumonia 1
Bronchitis 2
No apparent disease 1
There were three cases of laryngeal obstruction, all of which
recovered satisfactorily without the operation of tracheotomy.
Deaths.—There were three deaths from diphtheria, giving a
mortality rate of 3.8 per cent. Two deaths occurred among the
non-diphtheritic cases, one of septic pharyngitis and septicaemia
and the other of pneumonia and empyema.