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Hygiene
Author(s) -
E.,
McCLE
Publication year - 1937
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1937.tb99855.x
Subject(s) - citation , hygiene , psychology , computer science , library science , medicine , pathology
KAI HROLV (Canadian Public Health Journal, December, 1936) states that the Sukkertoppen district. in Greenland has a population of 1,363 Greenlanders and the Holsteinborg district 876. They are isolated coastal communities. In 1914 an epidemic in Sukkertoppen caused 37 deaths from poliomyelitis among 700 persons. No cases are recorded anywhere in Greenland since 1925. In the two districts in 1932, 83 cases occurred with 20 deaths-27 patients were severely paralysed, 17 slightly paralysed, and 17 had no paralysis. No person who had gone through the 1914 epidemic developed the disease in 1932. Very thorough isolation of the villages affected was practised with apparent success. Many complained of headache and indisposition, others (children) of a little fever for two or three days. The author regards these as abortive cases and with carriers as forming the main spread lasting weeks. The early eaeea tended to be the most serious. Infection from actual cases was insignificant. The author considers six weeks quarantine of contacts more eitective than three weeks.