[Neurosyphilis mortality in a psychiatric hospital over a 50-year period]. / Mortalidade for neurossífilis em hospital psiquiátrico durante 50 anos.

Through information gathered at the statistical and medical register service it was done a descriptive study of some epidemiologic aspects of neurosyphilis at the Juliano Moreira Hospital (Bahia) in a period of 50 years (1930 - 1979). Coeficients of specific mortality were stablished . The distribution of the disease was analyzed according to sex, diagnosis in relation to the year, decades and periods before and after penicilinotherapy . Based on the results it is possible to conclude that: neurosyphilis has a cyclic character in epidemiologic level; women are more resistant or less exposed to the disease; males are more often affected; with the penicilinotherapy it was observed a progressive decrease of mortality; the last death caused by neurosyphilis at the Juliano Moreira Hospital occurred in 1971.

[The dynamics of the registration of neurosyphilis according to autopsy findings over a forty year period (1933-1972)]. / Dinamike chastoty registratsii neirosifilisa po dannym autopsii za 40 let (1933-1972)

The material of dissections obtained from 4 large mental hospitals of Moscow and the Kashchenko mental hospital speaks in favour of the fact that there is a steady drop and lethality from neurosyphilis, the absence of tabes dorsalis during the past 40 years, of meningo-encephalitis and of a significant reduction of cases with tabo-paralysis and brain gummas.