middle of June 1918 that I came across a number of cases in Cross Street, which is not only the centre of the piece-goods trade, but also the harbour of imported epidemic diseases. It is generally from this street that the germs of contagious and infectious diseases are carried in all directions through the city. In the year 1890 when influenza visited Calcutta for the first time, it selected C...

Background: In recent years, there has been an increase in the amount and variety of data generated in the field of healthcare, (e.g., data related to the prevalence of contagious diseases in the society). Various patterns of individuals’ relationships in the society make the analysis of the network a complex, highly important process in detecting and preventing the incidence of diseases....

In spite of the fact that every household keeps goats, their production is not well developed because of factors such as inadequate nutrition, poor management and prevailing diseases. Of all the diseases of goats, those affecting the respiratory tract [peste des petits ruminants (PPR), contagious caprine pleuro-pneumonia (CCPP) and pasteurellosis] cause substantial loss through high morbidity a...

man there is evidence of pneumonio or phthsical diseases being contagious, tlie floating of these cells in the air is worthy of all attention. In the air of a phthisical ward at. Netley, Dr. Watson not only found pus cells but bodies which were not found in the external air or in the rooms of healthy persons, and which were very like the cells seen in tuberculous matter. * # # The amount of con...

The long-term evolution of epidemic processes depends crucially on the structure of contact networks. As empirical evidence indicates that human populations exhibit strong community organization, we investigate here how such mesoscopic configurations affect the likelihood of epidemic recurrence. Through numerical simulations on real social networks and theoretical arguments using spectral metho...

nurses. It contains general information which the nurse in training will find most helpful, especially the student nurse studying for the final examination. The description of various methods of administering treatment is of value and interest, especially that on oxygen therapy and the description of and most us information on sulfanilamides. ii,e The charts at the back and front, one on sympto...