The Occurrence of Leptospirosis in Orissa

Das Gupta and Chopra (1937) discovered leptospirosis in India and reported first a bac,teriologically positive case from Calcutta. Since then, several proven cases of infectious jaundice have been recorded from Calcutta, Assam and Bombay by various workers, viz. Das Gupta (1938, 1939, 1941), Konar et al. (1939) and Lahiri (1941, 1943). Though the discovery aroused considerable interest, the number of cases so far reported is small; but this is more due to lack of facilities for thorough laboratory investigation than to the rarity of cases. The subject-matter of this report is a case of jaundice with fever, in which leptospirae were found on examination of the centrifuged deposit of urine; the patient's serum however did not agglutinate the classical strain of Leptospira icterohcomorrliagicE. Case report.?A Hindu male, aged 42, subinspector of police, was admitted on 2nd September, ? 1944, into the Police Hospital, Puri, for the treatment of haematemesis, melaena and jaundice.