Excerpt from Twenty-Second Report (Ninth Biennial) Of the State Board of Health of the State of New Hampshire: For the Fiscal Period Ending August 31, 1912The mortality from diphtheria since the introduction of antitoxin has apparently been reduced more than 50 per cent., and unquestion ably might be still further greatly diminished if this agent could be administered early In every case.The deaths from diphtheria for the calendar year 1910, for the entire state, numbered 71, and in 1911, 67. The regulations governing the sanitary management of this disease, require that the premises occupied by the patient shall be placarded until complete recovery, and that before the quarantine is raised the rooms occupied by the patient and his attendants shall be thoroughly disinfected.Elsewhere in this report will be found remarks upon the laboratory work in the examination of cultures, etc. The examinations demon strate beyond question the impossibility of determining clinically the nature of the infection in throat affections, particularly in the milder forms. We would especially call the attention of physicians to this point.In the figures given above are included deaths from membranous croup, which is another term for laryngeal diphtheria.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.