Typhus in England.

Challenges Facing Healthwatch, a New Consumer Champion in England

This article engages with debates about the conceptualisation and practical challenges of patient and public involvement (PPI) in health and social care services. Policy in this area in England has shifted numerous times but increasingly a consumerist discourse seems to override more democratic ideas concerning the relationship between citizens and public services. Recent policy change in Engla...

Typhus and Typhus-Like Fevers in Birjand, East Persia

met with in Birjand during eighteen months of hospital experience amongst the garrison of troops stationed there. Six of these cases were admitted to hospital during May and the last few days of April, 1919. One case occurred in the middle of J une, and the other two during the first three days of July, 1919. Case 1.?The first admission, a young Indian clerk of the Works Department, was on Apri...

Typhus Fevers in India

Typhus in Calcutta

ln this paper. The 'patients.?The present series included 17 Bengalees and 8 non-Bengalees of whom two ^ere Anglo-Indians. The youngest patient was H years and the oldest 61 years old, 18 (72 per cent) being between 11 and 30 years. This shows 'he maximum prevalence during adolescence and in young adults. There were 15 males and females indicating that both sexes were almost dually affected; fe...

Typhus in Akola (Berar)

as ninth day of the disease, and in a few cases ai early as the fifth or sixth day, and was 'ays preceded by the red congested appearance of tlie eyes, and by insomnia. Its manifestations varied from occasional incoherence of speech and slow response to calls, to low muttering delirium. In the 25 per cent of cases with less severe eruptions, the toxemia was present but was very mild. In these c...