Abstract
Summary Six hundred and forty-seven cases of whooping cough admitted to Glasgow hospitals over an 11 year period have been studied. Coughing paroxysms were usually but not invariably associated with a whoop and vomiting. Cyanotic attacks were common. The worst of the illness was over on average after 35 days. Complications included secondary chest (26 per cent) and ear (6 per cent) infection, apnoeic attacks (5 per cent) and convulsions (4 per cent). Four children under one year of age died, three in the first and one in the third epidemic. The state of pertussis immunisation of the children is compared with that of a group of children with measles. The comparison suggests that the vaccine is effective in reducing the number of children who require admission to hospital with whooping cough.
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