| Year | Cases | |
| 1831 | 758 | |
| 1832 | 1394 | |
| 1833 | 878 | |
| 1834 | 690 | |
| 1835 | 826 | |
| 1836 | 652 | |
| 1837 | 1224 | |
| 1838 | 2244 | |
| 1839 | 1235 | |
| 1840 | 782 |
At Aberdeen the epidemic appears to have been later even than at Edinburgh, if the following admissions to one of the two fever-wards (Dr Kilgour’s) may be taken as a fair measure of it[368]:
Admissions for Fever, Aberdeen.
| Year | Cases | Deaths | ||
| 1838 (March to December) | 189 | 26 | ||
| 1839 | 286 | 29 | ||
| 1840 | 534 | 53 |
In all these large towns of Scotland, the fever was purely typhus. The various observers all describe the fever as of the spotted kind, the proportion of cases with spots varying somewhat.
Thus, at Glasgow Infirmary, from 1835 to 1839, there were 4202 cases with eruption, 1270 without eruption, and 143 doubtful. And, that the cases without eruption were not cases of enteric or typhoid, is probable from the record kept of the fatalities in Dr Anderson’s fever-wards[369]:
| In | 1885 | cases with eruption, | 275 | deaths, or | 14·58 | per cent. |
| " | 324 | cases without eruption, | 11 | deaths, or | 3·33 | per cent. |
| " | 143 | cases doubtful, | 7 | deaths, or | 4·89 | per cent. |
At Aberdeen, Kilgour counted 59 cases spotted in a total of 189 in 1838, 96 in a total of 286 in 1839, and 278 in a total of 534 in 1840, all the cases, whether spotted or not, being of the same fever, which he considered an exanthematous malady as a whole. Of 169 cases tabulated by Craigie at Edinburgh, from 28 June, 1836, to 12 February, 1837, there were 79 with an eruption, which was usually the mottled or rubeoloid rash.
The fatalities were relatively more in Edinburgh than in Dundee, comparing two periods which were not the same. Of 700 cases at Dundee, from June, 1836, to June, 1837, only 50 died, or 1 in 14, notwithstanding a good many complications from chest complaints and bowel complaints[370]. At Edinburgh during fifteen months of 1838-39, there died 276 in 2037 cases, or 1 in 7·3; of those cases, 1075 were in females, with 116 deaths, or 1 in 9, and 962 males, with 160 deaths, or 1 in 6[371]. The most common age for the fever at Dundee was from twenty to forty years (416 out of 700 cases, with 26 deaths, or 1 in 16), while the most fatal age, as usual, was from forty to sixty years, at which one person died of three attacked. At Aberdeen, in the last year of the epidemic, the years of life from ten to twenty had more cases (233 in a total of 657) than any other decade of life. The average stay of a patient in the Aberdeen fever-wards was 18·67 days. The great preponderance of deaths in adolescents or adults was clearly shown in the Glasgow fever-statistics, 1835-39.
| Deaths from typhus fever | Under ten years | Over ten years | Fever-deaths per cent. of deaths from all causes | |||
| 4788 | 752 | 4036 | 11·57 |