Influenza in Hospital 1960-1961

Rh Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn, 1960-1961.

Before 1941, erythroblastosis foetalis was treated at Birmingham Maternity Hospital by repeated intramuscular injections of fresh blood (Braid, 1939). During the next decade infants with Rh haemolytic disease of the newborn were given repeated intravenous transfusions of Rh negative blood. The exchange transfusion was not introduced until 1950. The first three years' experience (1950-53) with t...

St. Peter's Hospital for Stone 1860-1960

Two decades of change: Glenside Hospital population surveys 1960-80.

Results of the fifth quinquennial survey of the patients of Glenside Hospital, Bristol, when compared with five yearly surveys over the past 20 years, show that the "run-down" of the hospital continues. There is still an accumulation of long-stay patients, mainly for non-medical reasons. They remain in hospital because of the failure to provide community facilities adequate to their needs. It i...

Household and community transmission of the Asian influenza A (H2N2) and influenza B viruses in 1957 and 1961.

This study analyzed the distribution of the number of cases in households of various sizes, reconsidering previous survey data from the Asian influenza A (H2N2) pandemic in 1957 and the influenza B epidemic in 1961. The final size distributions for the number of household cases were extracted from four different data sources (n = 547, 671, 92 and 263 households), and a probability model was app...

Hospital Resources for Pandemic Influenza

To the Editor: In their November 2007 article, Pandemic Infl uenza and Hospital Resources, Nap et al. evaluated hospital resources for pandemic infl uenza in the northern part of the Netherlands (1). Their results can be compared with those that I have described for the combined suburban communities of Roswell and Alpharetta, Georgia, USA (2). The Netherlands evaluation assumed that antiviral d...