摘要:

In this survey of health in Aboriginal children on 12 settlements and missions in Queensland, the reported births and deaths suggest an infant mortality rate six times higher than the Queensland average, with diarrhoeal disease, respiratory infection, and diseases of the neonatal period accounting for 75% of infant deaths.Children in the post‐weaning period showed retardation of growth, anaemia, and frequent respiratory or enteric infection. The prevalence of hookworm infection has, on the evidence of this and other studies, fallen to low levels, but other enteric parasites were common in this age group.Middle‐ear deafness and rheumatic heart disease are major problems of Aboriginal school children. Hepatomegaly of unknown aetiology was found in all the age groups studied.Laboratory studies showed elevated total serum protein and γ‐globulin fractions, elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rates in many asymptomatic children and, in a limited study, a high prevalence of eosinophilia. Marked geographical variation was found in the occurrence of cold agglutinins, and antibody to group A and B arboviruses. Serclogical reactions for treponemal infections indicated a low prevalence in these communities.General improvement in the health of Aboriginal children and adolescents in the last decade has resulted from control of many diseases, but there are still high morbidity and mortality rates in infants and young ch

ISSN:1034-4810    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1969.tb02812.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1969

数据来源: WILEY

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Cells and bacteria were studied in urine samples from children in whom there was no reason to suspect infection in the urinary tract. The study confirms the fact that criteria for the diagnosis of urinary infection in adults cannot be applied unreservedly to children. The survey showed an incidence of bacteriuria of 0.5% and an incidence of microscopic haematuria of 1.0% in girls, and an incidence of possible urinary tract disease in 0.47% of the boys.

ISSN:1034-4810    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1969.tb02813.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1969

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Experience with supra‐pubic aspiration of urine in two hundred and thirty infants and children suggests that this is a safe and reliable technique. Bacteriological examination of urine obtained in this manner, contrasted with concurrent specimens obtained by more orthodox techniques, indicates that the latter may give false evidence of infection in over 60% of specimen

ISSN:1034-4810    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1969.tb02814.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1969

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In a suburban hospital in Sydney, salt was accidentally used instead of sugar in the preparation of feeds intended for a number of babies. Five babies were involved in the ensuing epidemic of hypernatraemia; 4 died and one, less severely affected, made a complete recovery. Three of the babies who died were of low birth weight and they presented with symptoms different from those previously described, in that they had diarrhoea, manifested no thirst, and had neither muscular twitchings nor convulsions. Overlapping of the sutures was striking in all cases.Ingestion of an excessive quantity of salt causes hypertonicity of the extracellular fluid which largely explains the disorders involved in hypernatraemia.It is suggested that salt should not be stored in an area where infants' formulae are prepared.

ISSN:1034-4810    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1969.tb02815.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1969

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The aim of this investigation was to study types of protein in asthmatic sera in relation to allergy. There are differences in the serum of some patients with asthma when compared with normal controls. There is an increase in the slow alpha globulin fraction, demonstrable by acrylamide gel electrophoresis. Similar changes have been reported in sera from patients with tuberculosis, pneumonia and bronchiectasis. Sera from patients with chronic infections also show intense gamma globulin bands.

ISSN:1034-4810    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1969.tb02816.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1969

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The quantity and quality of breast milk available to Australian Aboriginal infants after the first 6 months of life, are probably less than European counterparts. The weight of the individual child is closely related to the intake of milk, and the ability to increase the blood glucose after oral lactose loading appears in these infants to decline with age, but in the individual, the decline is not related to the intake of milk.

ISSN:1034-4810    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1969.tb02817.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1969

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The second of two monozygous twin boys had perinatal anoxia and spastic diplegia, and developed hypertrophic pyloric stenosis at eight weeks. The coincidence of these conditions, together with the absence of both conditions in the twin, suggests that anoxia may be important in precipitating pyloric stenosis in hereditarily disposed infants. Previous work showing an increased incidence of pyloric stenosis in first born children may indicate a similar precipitating factor.

ISSN:1034-4810    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1969.tb02818.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1969

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Two cases of extravasation of barium into the peritoneum following the reduction of an intussusception by barium enema are described. Some of the causes and consequences of this unusual complication are discussed.

ISSN:1034-4810    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1969.tb02819.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1969

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Book reviewed in this article:Clinical Pathology in Mental Retardation. R. D. Eastham and J. Jancar

ISSN:1034-4810    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1969.tb02820.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1969

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Genetic heterogeneity. Childs, B. and Der Kaloustian, V. M. (1968).The gentic basic for the variability of heritable diseases. Mellman, W. J. (1968).

ISSN:1034-4810    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1969.tb02821.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1969

数据来源: WILEY