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Show EFFECTS OF ANT.ITOXINE, Its Use in Germany Followed by JWoot Heneticent Rpsiiita. Statistics showing the effect of the use of diptheria antitoxine in the German Ger-man cities of Halle and Altona were recently published, says the New York Times. Between November 11. 1S94. and January 15 of this year, 114 cases were subjected to the serum treatment in Ilalle, and' the reports come from thirty physicians. There were only nine deaths, or a mortality of less than 8 per cent. Of eighty-nine eases treated in private houses, six had a fatal termination, ter-mination, and t.here svere three deaths out of the remaining twenty-five cases, which were treated in hospitals. In a hospital at "Altona antitoxine was used in sixty-three' cases between September 1, 1804; and March ' 1, 1S95, Eight of the patients died, so that the mortality was 13.69 per cent. In thirty-one of the sixty-three eases tracheotomy was required, but only three of these patients, or less than 1C per cent., succumbed to the disease. This is regarded as a remarkable record rec-ord for a. series of cases of this kind. The annual mortality from diphtheria in this hospital during the preceding seven years had ranged from 29.23 tc 37.27 per cent. |