Relapsing Fever, an Outbreak
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come "under the observation of the medical officers; then in July the disease broke out with crreat virulence in the schools of the C M S. situated with several industrial workshops and missionaries houses, etc., alongside of the Christian village of Sharanpur, over a mile from the city. The settlement attacked consists of numerous small buildings, boarding schools for boys and girls, normal school, kitchens, hospital, printing press and so forth, scattered
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