Open AccessA STUDY OF THE INCIDENCE, MORTALITY AND FATALITY OF DIPHTHERIA
Author(s) -
W. J. V. Deacon
Publication year - 1924
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.14.5.404
Subject(s) - diphtheria , medicine , case fatality rate , incidence (geometry) , demography , pediatrics , environmental health , immunology , vaccination , population , physics , sociology , optics
Diptheria is a disease of childhood. Seventy per cent of all cases and ninety per cent of all deaths occur under fifteen years of age. More boys than girls and more women than men have diphtheria. The fatality rate is higher for males than for females.