The Incidence of Intestinal Parasites in a Calcutta Hospital Population
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Under instructions from Lieut.-Col. H. B. Steen, m.d., m.s., i.m.s., a routine examination of the stools of all patients admitted to the surgical wards of the Calcutta Medical College Hospitals was carried out by me, and the results may be of some interest. They show the percentage of patients harbouring intestinal parasites in an average hospital population in Calcutta?the cases being quite unselected. The incidence of intestinal infections is so high that it cletarly shows that treatment for such intestinal infections should be part and parcel of the routine treatment of all hospital patients in India, and such patients' health would probably be much improved by measures directed against intestinal parasitic infections from w'hich they are suffering. In all, the stools from 371 patients were examined during 1925-1926. The findings which resulted were as follows:??
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دوره 62 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016