Some Aspects of Amœbiasis in Madras

By D. GfOVINDA REDDY, mji, j. Professor of Pathology, Medical College,, Madras and M. THANGAVELU, *ij>. Department of Pathology, Medical College, Madras Tue idea existed until recently that Entamoeba histolytica.infection was more prevalent in the tropical and sub-tropical areas than in temperate and cool regions; but now we know that even in the tropics, bacillary dysentery is more common than amcebic dysentery. Acton and Knowles (1924) state that bacillary dysentery is at least five or six times as common among the civil population of Bengal as amoebic dysentery. Fletcher and^Jepps (1927) found that in 983 cases of dysentery in Kuala Lumpur no less than 77 per cent were of the bacillary type. Experience in the second world war has also confirmed the finding that bacillary dysentery is