Field Experiments with Atebrin and Plasmochin
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Behala, a village about six miles from Calcutta, and have been treated in the Carmichael Hospital for Tropical Diseases. We have from time to time visited this settlement, as it was thought that a study of the conditions might throw some light on the transmission problem. Except that they are more sanitary, the general conditions under which these boys live are very similar to those prevailing in the ordinary Bengal village; the huts in which they live are constructed with bamboo and plaster, the floors are of mud, and the roofs are thatched. The compound is closely surrounded by villages, in
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