Dysentery in Burma (Military Stations) with a Note on Some Post-Dysenteric Infections

District Laboratory, Calcutta Numerous observers in the East have stressed the importance and prevalence of bacillary dysentery, particularly when due to infections with the B. flexner group. This statement has been corroborated from time to time by various workers in several parts of India. The following summary of results obtained during 1930-31 in the Military District (comprising mainly Mingaladon, Rangoon, Mandalay and Maymyo) is in line with other findings, in spite of the belief among some local medical practitioners that in Burma the protozoal infections play quite an important part in the incidence of dysentery. The monthly incidence of dysentery among British and Indian troops during 1931 is shown in the attached graph. The figures on the graph represent the monthly morbidity rate per thousand and show that the disease is prevalent amongst the Indian troops throughout the