A treatise on hooping-cough : its complications, pathology, and terminations : with its successful treatment by a new remedy / by George D. Gibb.

  • Gibb, Sir George Duncan, 1821-1876.
Date:
1854
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Credit: A treatise on hooping-cough : its complications, pathology, and terminations : with its successful treatment by a new remedy / by George D. Gibb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER III. MOKTALITY FROM HOOPING-COUGH. It is a matter of considerable moment, and fur- nishes food for very serious reflection, to glance over some of the tables of statistics in the present chapter of mortality from this disease. If the number of deaths appears large for aU England, or even for London alone, with its teeming popu- lation, what may not the number amount to of children carried off annually in other countries? The sum total, in the number of deaths annually from this disease alone, throughout the world, or even in one of its great divisions, were it possible to obtain it, would appear fabulous. And it is only by drawing attention to such facts as these in a statistical form, that efforts can be made by governing bodies to improve the sanitary condition of towns and cities throughout the world. Can it be doubted for a moment, that hooping-cough, in common with many other diseases, depends upon causes removable in a sanitary point of view, which every now and then, under the influence of certain seasons, produce its appearance as an