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Haslam records tliafc a severe fatality occurred among camels at 

 the Desert Camel Camp, SiieZj in Juno 1885. He found the gait 

 difficult and painful, movements slow and tottering, lying down, 

 quietly rolling on to the side ; bending back the head or looking 

 round at the Hanks ; an uneasy helpless look of the eye ; no vio- 

 lence; pulse frequent, Aveak, and full ; great tympanitis, breathing- 

 laboured, flanks drawn up ; gradual exhaustion ; ultimately stop- 

 page of respiration and circulation and death in — 8 hours after 

 last meal. Fifty-six dead ones lay on their left side, liumeno- 

 tomy proved successful in slight cases ; in others Mr. Haslam tried 

 very gentle exercise, one pint w^arm water every two hours as a 

 drench and feeding on wanii bran-mash. Sixty-four camels 

 died : post mortem examination showed diffuse inflammation of 

 the alimentary canal from cardia to anus, diffuse peritonitis, 

 stomach full of unchanged food and water with much gas (chiefly 

 COo). Brain and spinal cord unaffected. In about 40% the 

 heart had undergone partial or total miicuid degeneration (the 

 right side generally, sometimes even the left ventricle was attack- 

 ed). All but twenty-seven were in poor condition. Some cases 

 disembarked on the day previous to death were suffering from 

 pneumonia, but not sufficient to account for death. Division I. 

 Disembarked after a six days journey, marched to the desert and 

 watered on following morning shortly after a full meal of bhoosa 

 and barley. Twenty-one deaths occurred within 16 — 24 hours 

 after disembarkation, some on the line of march, some after arrival 

 in camp. The distance traversed was four miles in the hottest 

 portions of a not excessively hot day. Death took place more by 

 shock (Syncope) and exhaustion than by the inflammatory state." 

 A few of these suffered from scabies : simultaneously in Camp 4o 

 died, but most of them 26 in number, all suffering from scabies, 

 had disembarked on 25th and marched up on 26th. Those ani- 

 mals which had not marched up lately were the weakest and 

 most severely affected with scabies in the camp ; of them twelve 

 were suffering from severe wounds, skin inflammation, fever, &c., 

 and were unexercised. Five of the camels were strong and well. 

 These camels were watered in the morning on account of the 

 unusual heat ot" the day and a Khamsin wind commencing to blow 

 which caused the camels to get loose and obtain drinking water 

 freely. vSome were watered at the fresh water canal where they 

 got embedded in the nmd and struggled severely. 



