SCARLATINA IN INDIA. We have much

pleasure

in

drawing

attention to Dr. Gibson's

" Scarlatina in Poona" which has been elicited by paper on in which the assertion that this disease our recent remarks,

existed in India There

bo

can

was

110

declared to rest

on

insufficient evidence.

reasonable doubt that the

Dr. Gibson were veritable

cases

cases

of scarlatina.

greatly regretted that the origin of sucessfully stamped out, is not

so

this

described

outbreak,

known.

by

It is to be which wa3

It is not even

su^ested whether the outbreak coincided with fresh arrivals.

point surely a little further inquiry would throw some print with pleasure an account of the Simla Staff Surgeon Bradshaw. There is no denying that by

On this

light. cases

We also

the cases

which he describes

were

also

cases

of scarlatina.

We still, however, must look upon the disease as an exotic as far as this country is concerned. As regard Calcutta, sufficient

wanting to prove the existence of the disease in Our former statement was made with due delibera-

evidence is this

city.

inquiry. We cannot admit such an important vague hearsay, and shall await an accurate record experience. personal

tion and after

conclusion of

on