Yaws in the Nicobar Islands *A résumé of a lecture delivered at the Clinical Society of Port Blair on 13th February, 1932.
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were sent to Port Blair in 1930 for a trial for murder, these were cured with two injections of novarsenobillon (0.6 and 0.9 grammes). This led me to suspect that the cases reported to be suffering from syphilis in the Nicobars might be cases of yaws. I understand that Lieut.Col. Barker, i.m.s. (1925) reported a case of yaws from the Nicobars, but I fail to find any other record of the prevalence of this disease in the Nicobars. An opportunity occurred for investigation when the census superintendent for the Andaman and Nicobar islands required the services of a sub-assistant surgeon to record anthropological measurements of the Andamanese and Nicobarese in connection with the census report for these islands. Dr. Naidu was deputed for this work and I sent him well equipped with, I considered, an ade-
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