Typhus in Rajputana

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  • Robert Heilig
چکیده

Since Megaw reported the first case of topical (non-epidemic) typhus seen in India (1917), several hundreds of cases have been described from various parts of the country, the Majority of which Roy (1946) collected and entered on a map of India. This survey as ^ell as a perusal of available literature show that no cases of tropical typhus have been Published from Rajputana. In this connection ? remark by Hendley (1895) is of historical Jnterest; in tabulating ' all other general diseases ' which occurred in ' Jeypore' during "is twenty years of service here, he states : Epidemics of typhus fever were reported as having occurred in the jail about 25 years ago. There have been none since '. This, obviously, ^as louse typhus and has nothing to do with the main problem of specifically Indian typhus ^'hich is still controversial as far as the vector ?r vectors are concerned. To make sure whether unpublished cases of topical (endemic) typhus have occurred in the Neighbouring States of Rajputana, we inquired from the leading physicians of Alwar (Dr. Khatre), Bikaner (Dr. Weingarten), Jodhpur iDr. D. N. Chatterjee) and Udaipur (Dr. Jaideo Prasad) whether they had seen any. The ^formations, kindly and readily supplied, were negative; they had neither seen nor' heard of

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دوره 81  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 1946