Introduction.?In his report on ' A limited outbreak of diphtheria exhibiting both cutaneous and faucial lesions ', Bensted (1936) says that the patients under observation sustained some sort of abrasion in climbing up or scrambling down the steep rock-strewn khud-side. The wounds appeared to be trivial, but did not heal. That this non-healing did not attract attention earlier may be explained b...

are only 34 cases more reported from different parts of India and one from Burma. Out of the 34 cases 12 were seen in Southern India (Guntur 4, Vizagapatam 8), one in Poona, 16 in the Punjab (Lahore 1, Kangra District 15) and 5 in Calcutta. Napier (1939) reports that they encounter 6 to 12 cases a year in the outdoor clinic of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine. No cases have yet been rep...

Geographical Situation of Pakistan The country consists of two wings-East Pakistan and West Pakistanseparated from each other by 1,500 miles of land. By far the greater part of the population (Table I) is concentrated in the relatively small area of East Pakistan in the delta formed by the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, which is the most densely populated part in the world and is conspicuous fo...