Collected papers reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps.

  • Royal Army Medical Corps.
Date:
1912
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Collected papers reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

    286/306
    Eatio per 1,000 Average Monthly Strength. Strength Malaria cases Ratio per 1,000 Strength Malaria cases Ratio per 1,000 Officers. 1910 Wo7nen. 1910 Children, 1910 Strength Malaria cases Ratio per 1,000 Jan. 4-35 13 6 461'53 33 G 181-86 47 6 127-65 Feb. 7-11 Officers. 1911 Strength 15 Malaria cases .. .. .. 2* Ratio per 1,000 133-33 * One officer admitted twice. Women. 1911 Strength Malaria Strength Malaria Pyrexia of Uncertain Origin. 1910 1911 2 2 Sand-fly Fever. 1910 1911 20 Nil Children. 1911 39 Nil. 62 Nil. One officer remarked to me that my figures were valueless because of their paucity. My reply to all who are of a like mind is, that I do not aspire to be a compiler of statistics, I merely state facts and figures as they occurred at Hyderabad. I regret that opportunity did not offer of ascertaining to what extent the mosquito population was infected. Much still remains to be done, namely, to find out the per- centage of mosquitoes with zygotes in their stomachs and sporo- zoites in their salivary glands, also the seasonal variation in infectivity. One of the Koyal Army Medical Corps officers, now stationed at Hyderabad, is being trained at Amritsar in special malaria work, and he will be able to afford valuable assistance in further antimalaria work at this station. I cannot conclude without thanking the following officers and warrant officers for valuable assistance, without which I would have been unable to carry out the work that was done in Hyderabad in 19] 1 : Captain G. W. Mortimer, 10th Jats, the Cantonment Magistrate; Captain J. A. S. Phillips, I.M.S., the Cantonment Medical Officer; Lieutenant W. B. liennie, K.A.M.C., in charge
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3