Typhus Fever in Northern India
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hill tracts,6 more especially Kulu.6 At the present time we should say rather that this area is liable to epidemics from time to time, and that it probably contains endemic centres. Since the Indian Medical Congress, typhus has almost been forgotten in this country, but in 1905 it broke out in Peshawar in the first Mule Corps, which had just returned from the Thibet Mission. In the earlier part of last year typhus again broke out in the first, and later in the sixth Mule Corps, and about 120 cases occurred. During the past winter four isolated
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