Classification of Anemias.pdf

172 PORTO RICO JOUR1'UL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND TROP. :a.lEDICI\E
CA8l:& IN WHICH BEllOGLOBIN PERCENTAGE WAS TAKEN AND ImVTHItOCYTltB
COUN TED
Hemoglobinemia and Secondary Anemia (non-megalobla.1tio anemia)
Total nuxnber of such cases 9
Casel of spruc 34
Average hemoglobin percentage 63.4
Cases with 5,000,000 cells per cmm. or over 15
Cases with 6,000,000 cells per cmm, or over___ _________________ ______ ~
Cales with 7,000,000 cells per cmm. or over 11
Average erythrocyte count per cmm, 4,876,470
Cases of Digestive incompetence 85
A'I"erage hemoglobin percentage 61.1
Cues with 5,000,000 cells per cmm. or over 17
Cases with 6,000,000 cells per cmm. or over .:_____ 8
Cases with 7,000,000 cells per cmm . or o\'e£- _________________________ 5
Average erythrocyte count per cmm. 5,314,485
(One ease had 8,440,000 and another 10,232,00D-the latter a child
of two years.)
LOiS of weight in above casea :
Average of 24 cases of sprue
28. 1 pounds
Average of 23 eas es of digestive incoxnpetence___ 17 pounds
Average hemoglobin for all 69 cas es 65,7
Average eryt hr ocyte count for all 69 cases 5,098,550 per cmm,
Pernicious types of Anemia (Megaloblastic Anem ia.}
Total num ber of such cases 42
Cases of Sprue 38
Average hemoglobin percentage 49. 6
Cases with from 4,000,00D-5,000,000 cells per c=.__________ ______ __ °
Caaea with 5,000, 000 or more cells p er cmm. 1
Cases with 3,OOO,00D-4,000,000 cella p er emxn.________________________ 6
Cases with 2,000,00D-3,000,000 " " ,, 16
Casea with 1,000,00D-2,000,000 " " " 15
Average erythrocyte count per emrn, 2,371,447.
Cases of Digestive Incompetence____________________________________ ~
Average hemoglobin percentage 47
CMea with 8,000,000 to 4,000,000 or more cella per enun.____________ ___ 1
Cases with 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 or more cella per emm. _______________ I
Cases with 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 or mor e cella per emm. _____________ __ 1
Cases of unknown etiology___________________ _______________________ 1
Av erage hemoglobin perccntage 32
Average erythrocyte coun t per cmm. 2,272,000
Len of weig ht in above eases :
Average of 38 cas as of sprue
Average of 3 cases of digestive incomp cte nce
37.1 pounds
31.6 pounds
In eleven of these forty-two cases the eolor index was less than 1,
hut there were other reasons for considering them cases of pernicious