Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26
SEX AND BODILY ILLS.
Men Are More Susceptible Than Wo'
men to Common Complaints.

In these days of thin lawn waists.
openwork stockings, and low neckS it
is interesting to learn that women.
nevertheless, are not nearly SO sus-
centible to pneumonia and tuberculosis
as men. More sufferers from asthma
are to be found among women than
men, but this is about the only com
men complaint in which female cases
prcDonderatc.
All this we learn from Il report made
BY DR.. James Grant Andrew, NJ. g., Of
Glasgow, after Il careful examination
and tabulation of 42.603 hospital cases
treated during the past ten years.
Dealing with the relation of sex ana
age 10 the chief forms Of disease. DR..
Andrew shows that most general dis
eases are more common in males than
in females. Taking the entire series
of $50" cases Dr. Andrew finds that
no less than I'll per cent. 81 them We're
on the male sex. Among affections Of
the more important organs we learn
that pulmonary diseases We're more
prevalent among males than among
females, in the ratio of e-fourths
to one-fourth. or pulmonary diseases
o'-!i'i .ltit, VI t!if' ASt''NsN VI hlt i'Itu-
nonia - per cent. were males Of the
cases OF pulmonary tuberculosis, G7
per cent; OF the cases Of bronchitis, II
per cent, and of the cases of pIcurisy
and cmDycn!a, "a per cent. The only
Instances in which female cases pre-
pOnderated was that of asthma, where
the proportions We're Ga per cent. for
females and SO per cent. for males
The age period % to 80. years is that
in which the largest number of pull
n"nary affections occurred. In this
period the highest proportions of cases
Of acute pneumonia We're observed, and
the cases of acute pleuriSy We're then
more frequent than in either the pre-
ccding or the succeeding decade.
Tuberculosis phtl1iais was also more
common in this decade than III any of
the others. Between the ages OF 80
and 40 asthma was most common, the
cases being then more numerous than
il any other equal period
Between the ages Of 40 and 50
chronic bronchists became the pre-
vailing type Of lung diseases, nor We're
the numbers greatly exceeded in either
OF the succeeding decades. The pull
mcnary affection most frequently OBJ
served was acute pneumonia. Up to
40 years OF age cases of this affection
We're i'll excess at every decade, but
after that age they gave place to
chronic bronchitis.
Following in the order of frequency
came tuberculosis phthisis, and the
cases Of this disease among young
adults We're no less numerous than
those of pneumonia. Next in fire.
nuency in this series came diseases of
tie stomach, which accounted for
about per cent. of the total. Taken
we're more frequent in females than in
macs in the proportion of two thirds
to one third. This is due to the ex-
CeDtional liability of females to suffer
from gastric ulcer, not less than 81 per
cent. OF the cases Of which affection
occurred in women. Nearly half the
total cases of disease of the stomach
were diagnosed as gastric ulcer, the
largest proportion of which occurred
at ages between 20 and go.
Taking together a total of 1474 re-
cfrded cases Of diseases of the heart.
bf. Andrew shows that there was a
greater frequency Of disease among
males than among females. Affec-
uHnS OF the blood vessels We're also
more Ireqeunt among men than wo-
men. or l413 recorded cases of kid
neg disease, $40 per cent. were in
in"f"s.-NeW York World