Enteric Fever in Infancy

ment which play an important role in the liabi lity of the disease in adults do not come into force in connection with infancy. Prevalent Season.?July to September, this corresponds with the seasonal influence as it affects the disease in adults. (This applies mainly to India.) Source of Infection.?This, a highly important factor, is one that ought to be more easily solved in the case of infants than in adults, owing to the greater simplicity of their diet. In two of my cases I have reason to believe that contamination of raw meat juice was the source of infection. If one could definitely prove this it would be of much importance, for raw meat juice is such a valuable article of diet for infants, that one would hesitate to condemn its use, at any rate out in India, on the mere supposition that it may be a fertile source of infection in enteric