THE EPIDEMIC JAUNDICE OF CAMPAIGNS

A Mild Epidemic of Jaundice

the same disease were observed among the civil population, but it was not feasible to keep the civil cases in hospital, and consequently the following statistics and remarks apply only to the military element. The first case was admitted on 2nd September 1912 and the last on 27th December 1912. There were a total of 26 cases, giving a percentage of just over 7 of the total strength of the garri...

An Outbreak of Epidemic Jaundice

Epidemic of Jaundice, Waziristan Field Force

that the patient's death was due to acute (yellow) atrophy of the liver. In the second Indian case? also in No. 14, Indian General Hospital, I suspected death to be due to the same cause, but the evidence here was not so strong as in the first patient. In neither of the above was a post-mortem obtainable. On the British soldier, who died in No. 18, British General Hospital, with much the same s...

Optimal Control of an Epidemic through Educational Campaigns

In this work we study the best strategy for educational campaigns during the outbreak of an epidemic. Assuming that the epidemic is described by the simplified SIR model and that the total time of the campaign is limited due to budget, we consider two possible scenarios. In the first scenario we have a campaign oriented to decrease the infection rate by stimulating susceptibles to have a protec...

An Epidemic of Catarrhal Jaundice in Buxar Central Jail

one of which was fatal Most of the prisoners attacked were between the ages of 20 and 3r ? in almost all the onset was gradual, and symp' toms calling for treatment were evident to the patient at a period varying from three to seven days after the commencement of the attack From a perusal of the annexed statement it will be noted that many of them had suffered from malarial fever between one an...