The incidence of enteric bacteria and Staphylococcus aureus in four day care centers in Akwa Ibom State was studied using culture techniques. The percentage frequencies of the isolates from 124 samples were Staphylococcus aureus (33.9), Escherichia coli (19.0), Klebsiella sp (14.4), Citrobacter sp (12.5) and Proteus mirabilis (7.4). The sources of contamination were floors, chairs, skin, bed li...

NESS OF LOWER BENGAL AND THE .RECENT OUTBREAK OF EPIDEMIC FEVER. By Assistant Surgeon Goi-aul Chunder Roy, M.D., F.R.C.S., Inspecting Medical Officer of Endemic Dispensaries. Although the following observations are the result of limited experience, yet, as facts, they may l>e made use of for the solution of the problem stated in the title of these remarks. With this view I shall dwell on the pe...

Geographical Distribution.?It is prevalent in South America, the West Indies, some parts of the United States of America, Pacific Islands, the East Indies, Ceylon and Malaya. /Etiology.?The disease is caused by the Treponema pertenue. (Castellani) which is found to be present in the lesions of the primary and secondary stages. Incubation Period.?This varies from a few weeks to some months. Mode...

Major conflicts in history have yielded an equal number of medical casualties as those injured in battle, and no more common a problem exists in the insanitary conditions of war as dysentery. The complication of arthritis following dysentery has been documented since ancient times, but it is not until the 16th Century that these cases appear in any numbers, and then it is predominantly in milit...

are insanitary. It may also occur in mining communities in Europe if there is a combination of hot moist conditions and poor hygiene (Adams and Maegraith, 1960). The disease causes iron-deficiency anaemia because of loss of blood. The worm attaches itself to the mucosa of the small intestine and sucks the blood of the human host, passing it through its own lumen into the lumen of the gut. In ad...

The general death rate for the year 1903, uncorrected for sex and age distribution, is 14.22 per 1000 living, the lowest rate yet recorded for the city. While this is satisfactory, it is more important to note that the average rate for the past five years has not exceeded 17.1, a point at or below which, as suggested by Farr, the causal influence of general insanitary conditions upon the death ...

HEiLTH PROBLEM IN INDIA 1^1 T p'>CEfis?,sis is one of the most urgent tubero l problems in India. Although in .UJ?sis is by no means a new disease of j country, at no time in the history devasf f. has it been so widespread and so i^s effects as it is at the present ?Vei" fh development of industries all e country and the introduction of rapid modes of transport, with the ever-increasing immigra...

Virtual geographic environments (VGEs) have been regarded as an important new means of simulating, analyzing, and understanding complex geological processes. Plants and light are major components of the geographic environment. Light is a critical factor that affects ecological systems. In this study, we focused on simulating light transmission and distribution within a three-dimensional plant c...

The 3D complex building models are commonly of massive data, detailed appearance and sophisticated topology. The LOD modelling and real-time visualization of such models have hampered the wider applications of Virtual Geographic Environments. Aimed at the drawback of traditional simplification methods—difficult to locate the components, primitives that have to be decimated, this paper proposes ...