. The practice of pediatrics. ield for infection with the pneumococcus and other pathogenic bac-teria. The mortality in institutions for children with measles is al-ways large, because of the complication of bronchopneumonia. In arecent epidemic of measles thus complicated, in a New York institutionfor children, there was a mortality of 40 per cent. Otitis.—Acute, simple, and suppurative otitis is a fairly frequentcomplication. Its presence should be suspected when the temperatureis continued and does not subside with the disappearance of the absence of pain does not mean that the ear
. The practice of pediatrics. ield for infection with the pneumococcus and other pathogenic bac-teria. The mortality in institutions for children with measles is al-ways large, because of the complication of bronchopneumonia. In arecent epidemic of measles thus complicated, in a New York institutionfor children, there was a mortality of 40 per cent. Otitis.—Acute, simple, and suppurative otitis is a fairly frequentcomplication. Its presence should be suspected when the temperatureis continued and does not subside with the disappearance of the absence of pain does not mean that the ears are normal. In themajority of my cases of suppurative otitis in young children pain hasbeen absent. Nephritis is a very rare complication. I have seen but one case. Adenitis.—Adenitis is a rare complication. Recurrence or Second Attack.—I have known of one recurrenceafter a two-year interval in a girl seventeen years of age. I attended herduring both attacks, the last of which was very severe, and followed by PLATE II.
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