Observations on 8 Cases of Blackwater Fever, Treated with Serums and Alkalies
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Geographical DistribuHon. BLACKWAfER fever is met with in intensely malarious districts, with high endemic indices Dinajpur district in North Bengal is specially mentioned by Sir Leonard Rogers in his book 011 " Fevers in the Tropics " as one of the districts with a notoriously high mortality; this obviously accounts for the occurrence of 'blackwater fever. During the 18 months I was in the district as Medical Officer of the Dinajpur Ruhea Construe tion, E. B. Railway, of the malaria cases which came under my observation, 90 per cent were Plasmodium falciparum infections. Seasonal incidence.
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