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  Serum Cases—contd..
   II.—contd.
Condition of pa-
  tients after first
  application of
  treatment and
  of their con-
  trols.		 A.
Number of patients with an admission
temperature of 100° F. and over,
who were treated with serum
immediately on admission and lived
for more than 24 hours but
eventually died.		 B.
Number of A whose temperature
came down after the first injection
of serum and did not again
reach the level of admission
temperature.		 C.
Percentage of
B. to A.
Morning admissions 107 24 22.42
Evening admissions 54 8 14.81
TOTAL 161 32 19.87
Control Cases.
A.
Number of patients with an admission
temperature of 100º F. and over,
and who eventually
recovered.		 B.
Number of A whose temperature
came down within 24 hours of
admission and did not again
reach the level of admis-
sion temperature.		 C.
Percentage of
B. to A.
Morning admissions 44 9 20.45
Evening admissions 26 13 50.0
TOTAL 70 22 31.42
A.
Number of patients with an admission
temperature of 100º F. and over, who
lived for more than 24 hours
after admission but
eventually died.		 B.
Number of A whose temperature
came down within 24 hours of
admission and did not again
reach the level of admission
temperature.		 C.
Percentage of
B. to A.
Morning admissions 107 15 14.01
Evening admissions 79 24 30.37
TOTAL 186 39 20.96

VII.

      CONTROL CASES. TREATED CASES.
      Number of patients. Number of deaths. Mortality percentage. Average stay in hos-
    pital before death
(in days).		 Number of patients. Number of deaths. Mortality percentage. Average stay in hos-
    pital before death
(in days).
  Temperature: (a) Within 24
    hours.		 339 281 82.92 1.87 324 246 75.93 2.44
III. Patients admit-
    ted with tem-
    perature of 99°
    F. and above,
    in whom the
    temperature,
    after the first
    application of
    treatment(or in
    controls after
    admission),
    reached maxi-
    mum—		 (b) Later than
    24 hours.		 108 80 74.07 5.48 116 73 62.93 9.05
Condition
    during
    treat-
    ment.		 (I treated reco-
    very case count-
    ed in "within
    24 hours," as
    the record
    shows doubtful
    return.)		                
Proportion of (b)
    to (a).		 31.86
p.cent.		 ... ... ... 35.80
p. cent.		 ... ... ...

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