Dysentery in Bengal Jails

This is the form of dysentery to which I would restrict the term "specific." It is this form which is probably due to one or other of the microbes to which bacteriologists attribute the disease. It is this form of dysentery which is probably sometimes followed by liver abscess,* and it is against this form that the usual jail measures of disinfection and burning of stools are directed. Such cases, unless they quickly respond to treatment, pass into an acute sloughing stage, in which large portions of the intestine are involved, and more or less large quantities of very offensive rotten-oyster-like sloughs are passed. In fatal cases the excreta become black or dirty?brown in colour due to decomposed blood, the patient at the same time