Beri-Beri in the 28th Regt., Madras Infantry
نویسنده
چکیده
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 beri-beri, 48; recovered, 3o; sent on sick leave, 7; deaths, 1 o.
منابع مشابه
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...
متن کاملThe New Disease
faintest testimony of any past outbreak of this strange malady which seems to be gradually creeping onwards through the town and its suburbs. This therefore may be accepted as an indisputable fact. But if new to Calcutta, is the disease new to India ? Discarding the outbreaks which have occurred in Midnapore, Dacca, Sylhet, Cachar and Shillong which appear to be provincial offshoots of the metr...
متن کاملBeri-Beri
I have had very large opportunities of studying it while in charge of an entire district bordering on that of Malabar ; I saw upwards of 500 cases there during my stay of 19 months in the Presidency of Madras. While there I heard of the appearance of the disease in Cal' cuttafrom Dr. M. L. Sirkar, and on my return in Januaryj: 1879 I witnessed it here, and had no difficulty in recognizing and i...
متن کاملThe 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 ...
متن کاملBeri-Beri; Its Etiology, Symptoms, Treatment and Pathology
same disease in Assam. Dr. Bentley shews that the kidneys are not affected in beri-beri, and that albumen is not found in the urine, statements which tally with our own experience. We also speak from observation when we say that the pernicious form of anajmia, produced in some persons by the ravages of Anchylostomum duodcnale, cannot be confounded with beri-beri. Beri-beri seems to be a disease...
متن کامل