Kala Azar in Europeans in the Nowgong District of Assam
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Towards .the end of 1892, a daughter of the then Civil Surgeon contracted kala-azar and died after many months of suffering in Darjeeling. In February, 1893, the Forest Officer developed the disease and died a few months later in Calcutta. Towards the end of that year the District Superintendent of Police and his little boy aged seven years were attacked, and they both died the following year in Mozufferpore. All these cases occurred in the town of Nowgong itself and all ended fatally. In July, 1897, the disease by. this time having broken out on several of the Tea Kstates, a young planter, after
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