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Observations on the incidence and distribution of the common cold in a rural community during 1948 and 1949

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

O. M. Lidwell  and
T. Sommerville
O. M. Lidwell
Affiliation:
From the Medical Research Council's Common Cold and Environmental Hygiene Research Units, Harvard Hospital, Salisbury
T. Sommerville
Affiliation:
From the Medical Research Council's Common Cold and Environmental Hygiene Research Units, Harvard Hospital, Salisbury
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A study of the occurrence of the common cold in a Wiltshire village during the years 1948 and 1949 showed that, in this community, school children experienced about three times as many colds as adults living in households without schoolchildren, and that the presence of schoolchildren in. the household approximately doubled the numbers of colds experienced by both adults and infants under 5 years of age.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 49 , Issue 4 , December 1951 , pp. 365 - 381
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1951

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