Relapsing Fever in the Shahpore Jail in the Spring of 1867

On the 4th February, Sultan, No. 2320, on the 7th February, Dadoo, No. 2327, and on the 11th February, Biaddoo, No. 2328, all young men who had been in the quarantine with Gul Jehania, were attacked ; it was before suspected, and now became manifest, that we had got relapsing fever into the jail. These men were removed to an airy building outside the jail. No further cases occurred in the jail, but Jumal, No. 1983, in attendance upon the above three men, was attacked on the 25th February. All these men recovered ; three were jaundiced, two had bleeding from the nose, three had one relapse, and one had two relapses. Gul Jehania, the first case, was sentenced on the 7th January, four days before his attack; he had been implicated in a riot, and from 26th December to the 7th January had been an in-