faintest testimony of any past outbreak of this strange malady which seems to be gradually creeping onwards through the town and its suburbs. This therefore may be accepted as an indisputable fact. But if new to Calcutta, is the disease new to India ? Discarding the outbreaks which have occurred in Midnapore, Dacca, Sylhet, Cachar and Shillong which appear to be provincial offshoots of the metr...

MANY children in Ceylon suffered from and died of infectious diseases before antibiotics were introduced. The control of these has altered the pattern of childrens' diseases in this country to a certain extent. During the last few years neoplastic disease has played no small a part in increasing the death rate of infants and children. Thus in a study made by De Silva (1953) malignancy (includin...