Tubercle of the Lung in Hughli

The question of the frequency ot tubercle in India, especially in Bengal, has lately attracted considerable attention. It was formerly thought that tubercle was an uncommon disease in India, but this idea has long been found to be in| correct. It is now admitted that, in Bengal at least, tubercle is a common cause of death. When serving as Civil Surgeon of t le 2 Parganas, ten years ago, I was impressed by the great frequency of tubercle in Calcutta, among the classes attending the Sambhu Nath Pandit Hospital, especially among two difieient races, Eurasians of the lower classes, and labourers immigrating from up-country. Tubercle is not separately shewn in the distnot returns of deaths, which comprise only ,un? heads. cholera, small-pox, plague, malarial fevers, diarrhoea and dysentery, respiratory diseases, injuries, measles and chicken-pox, and other causes. Nor would it be of much use if a separate column for tubercle were introduced.