在毛主席革命路线指引下,广大医药卫生人员积极贯彻“预防为主”的方针,充分依靠群众,大力开展预防接种等工作,使白喉的发病率和危重病人发生率均有明显下降。然而本病是一种呼吸道急性传染病,冬春季节仍时有发生。我院自1961～1974年共收治5,989例,其中发生喉梗阻频于窒息而施行气管切开术者217例(一般的喉梗阻经过非手术治疗呼吸困难得以解除的未计算在内)。现把本病发生喉 Guided by Chairman Mao’s revolutionary line, the majority of medical and health personnel actively implement the principle of “prevention first”, rely fully on the masses and vigorously carry out vaccination and other work, so that the incidence of diphtheria and the incidence of critically ill patients have dropped significantly. However, the disease is an acute respiratory disease, winter and spring still occur from time to time. A total of 5,989 patients were treated in our hospital from 1961 to 1974, of whom 217 were throat obstruction and tracheotomy (general laryngeal obstruction was excluded after non-surgical treatment of dyspnea). Throat is now the disease