Immunizations and jails

Dysentery in Jails

a matter of quantity and it should never be forgotten that Lieutenant-Colonel Dobson, i.m.s. (retd.), showed the high percentage of health/ coolies, collected and the medically passed for Assam Tea Gardens, who were infected, but such mild infections do not mean or imply the existence of any condition worthy to be called ankylostomiasis. Our author, too, should have noted that the other allied ...

Mortality of Bengal Jails

Dysentery in Bengal Jails

This is the form of dysentery to which I would restrict the term "specific." It is this form which is probably due to one or other of the microbes to which bacteriologists attribute the disease. It is this form of dysentery which is probably sometimes followed by liver abscess,* and it is against this form that the usual jail measures of disinfection and burning of stools are directed. Such cas...

Scurvy in Indian Jails

of a jail is always of grave import. It is attributed in our Indian jails chiefly to a deficiency in the protein and alkaline constituents that enter into the composition of the prescribed jail diet, the alkaline constituents being chiefly potash salts.* These factors tend to induce a change in the composition of the blood, followed by a train of symptoms, that have special reference to the gum...

Immunizations and Chemoprophylaxis