Pellagra in the United Provinces
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Sir,?With reference to the article on the incidence of Pellagra in the United Provinces by Dr. N. Ahmad, published in the March issue of your esteemed journal, I would like to draw his attention to the review by Dr. T. K. Raman (1940) in the Journal of Indian Medical Research, Vol. XXVII, p. 743, where he has also given a good survey of the incidence and symptomatology of pellagra in India and Burma, based on an analysis of 150 recorded cases. I would like to draw his attention also to a case
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Pellagra in the United Provinces
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...
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