Control Measures Adopted for Epidemic Cerebrospinal Fever on Ships

Notes on Cerebrospinal Fever

Dr. G. F. Still observed that in the extremely interesting paper read by Dr. Bruce Low on Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis, allusion was made to the disease of infants which was known by the name of " Simple Posterior Basic Meningitis," or " Chronic Basilar Meningitis." The data were not yet sufficient to allow of any dogmatic statement being made as to the relation of this form of meningitis ...

Report on Preventive Measures Adopted at Dinapore to Mitigate an Epidemic of Cholera

The measures adopted at Dinapore to obviate an epidemic of cholera, appear to me so interesting that I venture to bring them before the notice of the profession. From the beginning of December 1872 to about the 15th, cases of cholera were continually occurring in the bazar, and occasionally in cantonments ; and on the loth the outbreak culminated in fourteen or fifteen cases in one day. I then ...

Report on the Burdwan Fever for the Year 1872; and the Measures Adopted for the Relief of the Sick

Y. Attendance on the Dispensaries.?Information on this subject is not very reliable, as the dispensary returns are pronounced to be valueless and not worth the paper they are ?written on. But there can be no denying or gainsaying the fact that the dispensaries in the fever-stricken villages were very largely attended throughout the whole of the year. Some dispensaries were more popular than oth...

A Note on an Epidemic of Cerebrospinal Fever in a Closed Community

Commentary on "some observations on an epidemic of sand-fly fever, occurring in one of HM ships". 1918.

The ship in which I am serving recently underwent a refit at an East Indian port; owing to the unhealthy locality of the dockyard, the officers and men were accommodated ashore during the period of repairs, which was of nearly two months’ duration (August 9 to October 5), one watch being quartered in the local Sailors’ Home in order to assist with the work on the ship whilst the other was sent ...