Gastro-Enteritis in Alipuram Jail, Bellary

err in diagnosis in the absence of laboratory facilities?as this disease closely resembles cholera. Consequently no reliable statistical figures are available and this type of dysentery does not get the notice it deserves. Information from text books is also scanty as it is generally considered that this malignant form of dysentery is not common. Jails, of course, are ideal places for the study of certain diseases in their different phases, and this jail?with its exceptionally large population of one particular class of men from a limited area?has offered unique facilities for the study of dysentery. It was opened in October 1921 for the detention of men convicted in connection with the Moplah rebellion and since then over ten thousand