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SIDNEY S. KRIPKE, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1961;102(1):123-133.

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The use of antibiotics and chemotherapeutic agents has appreciably lowered the mortality from bacterial infections, including pneumonia. Comparison of the figures on pneumonia mortality in the United States in 1936-1938 with the 1951-1953 statistics shows an over-all decrease in mortality in all age groups, as high as 89%.¹ During this same period, the decrease in deaths among infants below one year of age was only 62%. Two recent statistical reports reveal that in the United States 19% of all deaths from pneumonia occurred in children less than one year old,² and 29% of the infants affected were in the neonatal group.³ Arey and Arey⁴ estimated that pneumonia is the primary cause of death in 10% of infants dying in the neonatal period and is a contributory factor in an additional 25%. Autopsies performed on 76 stillborn and newborn infants revealed pulmonary inflammation of some degree in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Senior Assistant Resident in Pediatrics.; From the Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine.

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Submitted for publication Nov. 18, 1960.

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