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Stephens, J. W. W. and others. Discussion on Yellow Fever on the West Coast 

 of Africa. Brit. Med. Jour. Nov. 11, 1911, p. 1263, also in Yellow Fever Bu. Bull. 

 Vol. 1: 8 Dec. 1911. Among other things discusses the part that Slegomyia fasciata. 

 may play in its spread. 



Yellow Fever Bureau Bulletin. Published by Yellow Fever Bureau of the Liver- 

 pool School of Tropical Medicine. Published monthly. The first number appeared 

 in May 1911. "It will contain abstracts of papers dealing with the subject of Yellow 

 Fever, laboratory reports, investigations, yellow fever statistics and antistegomyi a 

 measures." The eight numbers that appeared in 1911 are all full of interesting 

 notes and articles. 



Distribution and Prevalence of Yellow Fever in West Africa. A discussion by 

 various doctors. Tr. Soc. Trop. Med. Jan. and Feb. 1911. A discussion of Boyce's 

 paper on this subject which appeared in the December, 1910, number of the same 

 journal. 



Yellow Fever in Hawaii Oct. 23, 1911. Press dispatches announce the arrival 

 of another ship in Hawaii on which a patient had died from yellow fever. Ship 

 from Central America; held in quarantine. 



Possible, but Preventable, Legacy of the Panama Canal. R. of R's. 43: 483-4 

 Apr. 1911. Quotations from, and comments on, Lindsay's article in Lippincott's 

 Apr. 1911. 



Leprosy 



Currie, D. H. Mosquitoes and Flies in Relation to the Transmission of Leprosy- 

 Jour. Trop. Med. & Hyg. XIV: 9 May 1, 1911. Abstract of Pub. Health Bull, 

 no. 39, 1910. 



Currie, D. H. and Hollmann, H. T. A Contribution to the Study of Rat Leprosy. 

 Pub. Health & Mar. Hospt. Serv. Pub. Health Bull. 41, pp. 13-32 pub. 1911. Be- 

 lieve th,at certain mites {Loelaps echidninus) may possibly be concerned in trans- 

 mitting the disease. 



Long, E. C. A Note on the Transmission of Leprosy. Jour. Trop. Med. & Hyg. 

 XIV: 17 Sept. 1, 1911. Finds lepra bacilli in bedbugs that have fed on lepers; 

 cites a case where a certain man slept in a hut formerly occupied by a leper. He 

 was bitten by bugs then and later developed the disease. 



Long, E. C. Transmission of Leprosy. Brit. Med. Jour. Sept. 2, 1911. Bed- 

 bugs allowed to bite lepers in the neighborhood of leprous nodules and on examina- 

 tion the alimentary canal was found to contain bacilli similar to B. leprce. 



Sandes, T. L. Mode of Transmission of Leprosy. Jour. Trop. Med. & Hyg. 

 Aug. 1, 1911. See also Brit. Med, Jour. Sept. 2, 1911. Thinks that flies, fleas, 

 mosquitoes and other insects may accidentally carry the bacilli, but believes that 

 the bedbug may be a very important agency in spreading the disease. 



Housefly 



Bacot, A. On the persistence of bacilli in the gut of an insect during metamorpho- 

 sis. Trans. Ento. Soc. London 1911 part II p. 497. Experiments show that certain 

 species of bacilli ingested during the larval period of M. domestica can retain their 

 existence while their host is vmdergoing the process of metamorphosis and continue 

 their existence in the gut of the adult fly but their number diminishes suddenly 

 after emergence. 



Bacot, A. W. The Persistence of Bacillus pyocyaneus in pupae and images of 

 Musca domestica raised from larvae experimentally infected with the bacillus. Para- 

 sitology IV, 1, Mar. 1911 p. 68. Quotes from Faichnie's paper (Jour. Roy. Army 

 Med. Corps XIII. 1909) showing how B. typhosus may thus persist, and gives the 



