ENTERIC FEVER IN INDIA. By
Deputy Surgeon-General J. B. Hamilton, m. d? V. H. S. Administrative Medical Officer, Oudh and Rohilcund.
In the February number of the Indian Medical Gazette, the Editor reviewed a work of mine under the above heading; two or three points are alluded to as being obscurely, or inon, and these I wish now conclusively touched The " question as to whether the to refer to. disease is likely to be derived from insanitary conditions existing in and around Indian Can" is certainly one of great difficulty, tonments i. e., to prove clearly. All enquiries into outbreaks of Enteric Fever in India are invariably surrounded by difficulties, ten times more so than in similar enquiries at home. Here, we have no sewers, drains, cisterns, traps, &e., defects which so often cause Enteric Fever in Europe, and, when the dry earth system is properly worked, the ground is almost cut away from under the feet of the enquirer, so far as faecal contamination is concerned, in cautonmeuts. " As regards " milk," " aerated drink ?
Deputy Surgeon-General J. B. Hamilton, m. d? V. H. S. Administrative Medical Officer, Oudh and Rohilcund.
In the February number of the Indian Medical Gazette, the Editor reviewed a work of mine under the above heading; two or three points are alluded to as being obscurely, or inon, and these I wish now conclusively touched The " question as to whether the to refer to. disease is likely to be derived from insanitary conditions existing in and around Indian Can" is certainly one of great difficulty, tonments i. e., to prove clearly. All enquiries into outbreaks of Enteric Fever in India are invariably surrounded by difficulties, ten times more so than in similar enquiries at home. Here, we have no sewers, drains, cisterns, traps, &e., defects which so often cause Enteric Fever in Europe, and, when the dry earth system is properly worked, the ground is almost cut away from under the feet of the enquirer, so far as faecal contamination is concerned, in cautonmeuts. " As regards " milk," " aerated drink ?
