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of Seidelin's article in Yellow Fever Bull. Doubts whether the bodies Seidelin 

 found are parasites. 



GuiTERAS, Juan. A false alarm of yellow fever (Cuba) and how it was met by 

 Health Department. Amer. Jour. Pub. Health, Vol. II, March, 1912. pp. 170- 

 173. Buildings where suspected cases were found were covered with canvas and 

 fumigated with sulphur. 



LiCEAGA, Eduardo. Annual report on yellow fever in the Mexican Republic. 

 Amer. Jour. Pub. Health, 1912, Vol. II, No. 3, pp. 174-181. Cites a case that 

 he believes does not come within the generally accepted theory of mosquito trans- 

 mission. 



Seidelin, Harald. Yellow fever prophylaxis. Yel. Fev. Bur. Bull. Vol. I, 

 No. 10, February, 1912. Abstract in Jour. Trop. Med. & Hyg. XV, May 1, 1912. 

 Discusses various prophylactic measures but concludes that mosquito destruction is 

 the only radical measure. 



Seidelin, Harald. Report of yellow fever expedition to Yucatan 1911-12. 

 Yel. Fev. Bur. Bui. Vol. II, No. 2, October, 1912, pp. 123-124. Contains notes on 

 Stegomyia and its importance. 



Theobald, F. V. The distribution of the yellow fever mosquito and general 

 notes on its bionomics. Int. Ent. Cong. II, pp. 145-170. 



Yellow fever epidemiology. Yel. Fev. Bui. Vol. I, No. 9, June, 1912, pp. 291-293. 

 Several recent isolated outbreaks are inexplicable according to our present actual 

 knowledge. The suggestion has been made that the germs may be found in some other 

 animals, but absolutely nothing to support such a theory. 



The outbreak of yellow fever in Yucatan. Yel. Fev. Bui. Vol. I, No. 10, February, 

 1912, pp. 335-337. Discusses the probable origin of this outbreak. 



Yellow fever in 1912. Yel. Fev. Bur. Bull. Vol. II, No. 2, October, 1912. pp. 121- 

 122. Notds on reported cases. 



FiLARIASIS 



Bahr, p. H. Filariasis in Fiji. Jour. Trop. Med. & Hyg. Vol. XV, March 1, 

 1912, pp. 77-79. Report on a paper read before the Soc. Trop. Med. & Hyg. January, 

 1912. Cause of the disease, effect on the patient and means of transmission and 

 control. 



Bancroft, Thos. L. The prevention of filariasis. Australasian Med. Gaz. 

 January 27, 1912, Vol. XXXI, No. 4. Annotation in Jour. Trop. Med. & Hyg. 

 Vol. XV, March 15, pp.92-93. Prophylactic measures recommended. Destroy 

 breeding places of C. fatigans. 



Low, Geo. C. The life of filarial embryos outside the body. Jour. Trop. Med. 

 & Hyg. Vol. 15, No. 22, November 15, 1912, pp. 338-339. 



Leprosy 



Cantle, J. Our knowledge of leprosy. Jour. Trop. Med. & Hyg. Vol. XV, 

 March 1, 1912, pp. 74-77. Notes on the attention that is being paid to this disease, 

 the possibihty of its being transmitted in various ways. 



CurrIie, D. H. and Hollmann, H. T. Further observations on rat leprosy. 

 Pub. Health Bull. 50, 1912. Further evidence that the mites infecting rats may 

 be responsible for transmitting this disease but no positive evidence that this is the 

 case. 



FouLERTON, A. G. R. As to the nature of the parasites of leprosy and tuber- 

 culosis. Brit. Med. Jour. February 10, 1912, p. 300. Believes that the causative 



