Notes on preventive medicine for medical officers, United States Navy : instructions to medical officers / Department of the Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.

  • United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Date:
1918
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Credit: Notes on preventive medicine for medical officers, United States Navy : instructions to medical officers / Department of the Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following figures relative to the results obtained after the use of influenza vaccine at the marine barracks, Paris Island, S. C., are furnished by the senior medical officer at the marine barracks, Quantico, Va.: A draft of 756 men was received from Paris Island, in the early part of November. Of these, 304 had not been vaccinated against influenza, and 39 or 12.8 per cent of them have since contracted the disease. Four hundred and fifty-two men of this draft had received from one to four inoculations of influenza vaccine and 72 or 15.9 per cent afterwards contracted influenza as follows: After one inoculation, 11 out of 75 men (14.6 per cent) developed influenza. After two inoculations, 30 out of 226 men (13.2 per cent) developed influenza. After three inoculations, 8 out of 57 men (14 per cent) developed influenza. After four inoculations, 23 out of 94 men (24.4 per cent) developed influenza. Deaths (stillbirths excluded) reported during the week ended Nov. 2, 1918, with death rates, in large cities of the United States. Week ended Nov. 2, come gs paren ake Week ended Nov. 2, Cee ea 1918. week, 1913-1917. 1918. week, 1913-1917. Cities. = Cities. SSS on ee Total Annual Total Annual Total Annual l Annual deaths. | 7445p deaths. | a deaths. | 7357 deaths. rao Albany... .ekeseeaee 184 90.0 | C 36 17.6 || Newark..........- 402 50.1; A 98 12.8 Aitlaita cio aco coca Ue. ZOU Oe menos 23.4 || New Haven........ 223 76.4|C 34 11.6 BaltJMore, «262 -aee 613 53.8| A 176 15.7 || New Orleans....... 455 62.9} A 149 3 A Birmingham........ 123 33.8} A 54 1623-l#New Yorki.-.s-cess 5, 819 52.9 | A 1,209 11.5 OSLO sshesees See 3L9 Vea Me fer ds Mee Sal Bs 15.0 ||, Oakland:.........- 279 70.5} A 87 10.0 Duttaloseee ced ee ee 613 6722 Al 107 DSL Omalia ger siege 128 BeD Asha eau 8.4 Cambridge.....-... 42 19. 2a Ane® 28 12.9 || Philadelphia. ..... je /fals 53. 2 466 14.2 CHICREO! a gt ceeae 2,191 44.9} A 576 12.3 |; Pxttsbargh.......--|\ 1, 1382 | 7007 1 Se 18.2 Cincinnati c 2.25025 382 48.0 O° F19 15.0 || Portland, Oreg..... 213 36.0| C 43 7.3 Cleveland........... 870 65.6 | C 163 12.3 || Providence........ 201 40.3|C 45 9.0 (- Columbusi-a.s 2osce8 139 $2.9.)°C > 358 13.7 |) Richmond.....:.... 100 32.9; 0 51 16.8 Daytotics.. oases. 148 59 so Ae Ok 12.7 || Rochester. ........ 254 50.0|C 76 15.0 Pon vet (set sas see 155 30.1 | A’ 60 12:4 || St. Louis... 2.5.5. 426 28. 9°] Gy 2227 15.4 Fall River.:-... 5.22. 69 21,7. © a8 165718. Paul. Jae 149 30. 831, eaao 8.1 Grand Rapids. ..... 49 19,2:)°C. 229 11.4 | San Francisco. .... 804 89:0 OR SLs ah aye Indianapolis........ 169 3101169396 17..7:j: Seattle. S255. ou. 148 21. 1 Ase, 46 res) Kansas City, Mo.... 291 49.6|/C 91 15.5 || Spokane..........- 42 13.9|C 26 8.6 Los Angeles......... 533 61.9} A 99 11.0 || Syracuse. ......... 95 31.3|C 36 11.8 Louisville........... 159 34.41 C 38 82.0 Eoled. soe sacs 2 bee 175 45.2} A 58 16.0 Lowell eet ac 63 Ae tele pelaly Be mshi 16.6 | Washington, D. C.. 302 42.6| A 116 16.8 Memphis........... 105 36.0| C 49 16.8 || Worcester.......... — 102 32.0; C 52 16.3 Milwaukee..........| 208] 24.4] A 86] 10.5 | a Minneapolis........ 203 28.3) (© 69 9.6 | Totaliccvec 3s 21, 020 48.01. dew kt Us coin Nashvilles.023. 202 93 41.0; C 42 18.5 | _in the cities listed above there have been 74,232 deaths from influenza and pneumonia during the eight weeks ended November 2, 1918. The figures by weeks are as follows: icomaese aa 2 oa - . : 2 : : G