Three Cases of Empyema Suggestive of an Infectious Nature

three weeks of one another at Duna, the smallest of the tea gardens in my practice, with a population of only 150. Since November 1895 there had been no case of empyema on twenty-four gardens with a population of 15,000 coolies inspected daily by the native doctors, nor had 1 operated on a case, brought from a distance since April 1895. Case I.?L. M., aged 40, came from Purulia, suffering from influenza and slight dysenteiy. Pleurisy set in and went on to suppuration. On January 7th, 1896, having been brought to hospital for operation, he died suddenly, while the instruments were being laid out. Post mortem.?Right pleural cavity full of pus, liver and other organs healthy. Case II.?K. M., 35, developed pleurisy during an attack of influenza. Rigors and sweats ensued, till, on January 15th, 1890, he suddenly coughed