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Between the years 1941 and 1951 2,000 cases of acute injury to the head were admitted to the General Hos- pital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and were treated in the department of neurological surgery. Of these, 1,544 were aged 13 and over (1,281 male, 263 female), and 456 were children up to the age of 12. The death rate
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