Relapsing Fever in Lower Bengal
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the city of Jessore, with a population of about 6,000 people, 10 deaths occurred daily. No other epidemic, it is stated, tf 5"^p\ | occurred in the city up to 1865, in which year there was a I great outbreak in all the adjoining districts, which was believed to have originated in Jessore. It appears that the inhabitants consider an outbreak of fever in September, October and November of each year a normal occurrence, and only except-
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