Spirillum Fever in India
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Sir,?J have read with interest Major Wimberley's letter in your June issue regarding the prevalence of spirillum fever in the Peshawar Valley. While Officiating as Civil Surgeon here, I have met with a severe and extensive epidemic of the disease, and the facts of the case may be of some interest. Information was received that a large number of cases of fever were occurring in the Eastern portion of the Mardan District, and that this fever was attended by a considerable mortality. I first sent out my Assistant Surgeon, and then visited the place myself. Prevalence. ?At present there are about 400 cases confined to seven villages near the right bank of the Indus. Mortality.?This was difficult to arrive at but could not have been less than 10 per cent. Sex. and age.?Chiefly males between 25 and SO. Only one case seen in a child and two in women. Symptoms.?These were fairly typical as described in the books on the subject, but there were several interesting points which were not those usually described. They were:
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