Enteric Fever in the European Army

occur spontaneously from sewage to which th?j> specific poison of, enteric fever had not gained access. At the meeting of the International Goiir} gress of Hy giene in London last year a strong) feeling was elicited in favour of the specific) origin against the spontaneous one. This idea: is crystallized in the report of the Sanitary Com-j missioner with the Government of India already > quoted, for " to suppose an ordinary putrefac-, tive microbe can generate an enteric fever bacillus is as reasonable as to expect a cat to give> birth to a tiger." This view being accepted,) great difficulty lias been experienced by obseiv vers of the disease among limited bodies of meii^ in India and elsewhere under conditions and in f localities presumably free from all sources of)