The Burdwan Fever

The Burdwan Fever

A By Assistant Surgeon E. T. Lyons, Bengal Medical Service. In the Englishman of 22nd July, 1872, Dr. Mantoll, the late Civil Surgeon of Burdwan, has commented on the statement that I had made in the July number of the Indian Annals of Medical Science, that the fever which appeared in the Chittagong column of the Looshai expeditionary force had been communicated by the coolies who were raised i...

Report on the Burdwan Fever for the Year 1872; and the Measures Adopted for the Relief of the Sick *This reports has been placed at our disposal by the Surgeon-General Indian Medical Department.

YEAR 1872; AND THE MEASURES ADOPTED FOR THE RELIEF OF THE SICK* By Surgeon K. P. Goopta, M.B., Officiating Superintendent of Vaccination, Metropolitan Circles. I. State of Health of the District at the beginning of the year.?The history of the origin of the fever in Burdwan may be given in a few words quoted from the excellent Bengal Government Resolution, dated the 9th January 1872 : ? " The f...

Burdwan Fever

Burdwan fever is enteric, typhus, or paludal (malarial). Dr. Greene of Serampore considers it to be enteric; Surgeon-Major Verchere to be typhus; and nearly all the medical officers ?who have seen much of the fever consider it to be paludal or malarial. Now what is the cause of this discussion, and to ^vhat are these different opinions owing ? I believe it is owing simply to deficient observati...

On the Nature of the Epidemic Fever in Lower Bengal Commonly Known as Burdwan Fever. (1854-75)

Further Observations on the Epidemic Fever of Burdwan

The Causation of the Burdwan Fever

By Surgeon K P. GurTA, M.B., Officiating Superintendent of Vaccination, Metropolitan Circles. The probable causes of the fever that has been devastating Burdwan for the last four years have again and again been discussed in the pages of the Indian Medical Gazette. Divers theories have been put forth to account for the prevalence of the fever iu that ill-fa^ed district. A3 yet no conclusion has ...