Beri-Beri: Adult and Infantile

Infantile Beri-Beri

Infantile beri-beri in Singapore during the latter part of the Japanese occupation.

The problemns presented by infantile beri-beri in Singapore during the yeas 1944 and 1945, up to the arrival of the liberating British forces on September 5, 1945, were of a different character from those obtaining in peace-time. They were: (a) apathy of the authorities; (b) lack of medicines; (c) lack of essential foods; and (d) shortage of milk or mlk substitutes. For purpose of actual descri...

The Treatment and Prevention of Vitamin-B1 Deficiency in Infants : A Public Health Experiment

KAMALA SADHU Additional Municipal Health Officer, Cocamda Aykroyd and Krishnan (1941) rcportcd c infantile beri-beri in the Northern Oscars ?rea in the Madras Presidency, whei ^ They 11 adults was known to be comlY?npnp?nacla ?Und that in three towns, Bezwada, C' ^ U(1 Vizagapatam, a peak in infant '+his ?Ccurred at the fourth month of life, while was absent in other towns outsidei t j*eri-beri...

Beri-Beri in the 28th Regt., Madras Infantry

Iiie regiment was stationed at Thayetmyo (Burma) from 1st January 1884? to 19th "January 1885. During tlii.s period there were 5 admissions for beri-beri. Recovered, 5 ; sent on sick leave, 3 ; death, 0. II. Madras from 27th January 1885 to 15th July 18SC, admissions for beri-beri, 5; recovered, 4; sick leave, 2; died, 1. III. Vijianagram from 19th July 1880 to December 1890, admissions for ber...

The Cause of Beri-Beri

My attention was first called to this disease in an outbreak of beri-beri at Meiktila Jail in 1808 ; at that time I thought the disease was due to a micrococcus, which I found in between the starch cells in jewary, in the granary of the jail ; I had also found it in pigeon's excreta from the roofs, and thought I had also found it in the blood and in pigeon's blood. But my series of experiments ...