Enteric Fever in Burma

enteric fever is a most prominent cause of mortality among European soldiers in India. Taking the statistics of the five years, 1871?75, we find that, of an aggregate of 5,147 deaths, 466 or 9'05 per cent were due to this cause?the admissions per 1,000 of strength being 3-58 and deaths 1'59. In British Burma, in a garrison of 2,020 men, 27 cases and 8 deathg were returned under the head of typhoid fever, or at the rate of 2'67 admissions and '79 deaths. While the existence of the disease to such a considerable extent among British troops has been rendered quite certain, evidence regarding the prevalence of the malady among natives of the country has been meagre. The statistics of the native army of Bengal which, as the work of competent medical officers, may be considered quite