Hospitalization For Other Causes Research Articles

STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS FOLLOWING MEASLES AND OTHER DISEASES

We have recently had opportunity to study the incidence and symptoms of streptococcal infections following measles, tonsillitis and other conditions associated with lowered resistance in soldiers, and to make observations on their pathology and symptomatology that are of assistance in diagnosis and in determining treatment. During the fall and early winter up to the middle of December, 1917, approximately 200 cases of measles and fifty cases of rubella were treated, with complications in only three cases, otitis media in each instance, in one of which a mastoid infection required operation. With the advent of "colds," acute bronchitis, pharyngitis and tonsillitis in the cantonment in late December and early January, a number of more serious complications appeared in measles patients as well as in soldiers in the hospital for other causes. The first one was a soldier convalescent from measles who was being held in quarters for the prescribed two weeks