1919.] The Sixth Indian Science Congress. ccxxv 
pa of distoma disease in India.—By N. F. 
RVEY : 
The author records a case of Paragonamiasis in a Chinaman who 
came to India and was admitted Hee ne J. J. Hospital in “seg vices 
ing fro e dra 
m pneumonia associated with hemoptysis. s attentio 
to the Rar danger of impo storie cases of this siscech rk h he con- 
siders to be greater since communication between India and China has 
Seronad within recent years 
The prophylaxis of dracontiasis—By D. A. TuRKHUD. 
Dracontiasis is a disease shervgd Cia beanaiat over the Indian Penin- 
sula ; in pegs e parts it is prevalent a sage aldegree. Figures collected 
from the jail populations show cha the pag afflicted area in the whole 
of India is the western portion of ae Madras orn es and Mysore ; 
the Deccan proper follows these in inten orig fs of the caer’ In some of 
the districts aaeeatae: is preva t times to such an extent as to 
seriously interfere with agricu uttural asad et it is one of the 
re 
and in t si biked wi eae i host, must be clearly — 
. The dise 
the deeiapinedtet eae of phy worm n be done either by nt 
venting human beings from Paertag a ogg or by preventing infec 
cyclops from ono access to the human stomach, Mechanical filtration, 
chemical treatm and conversion of step-wells into draw-wells are 
measures which an ga wri protection and are therefore measures 
m 
and to fit them with suitable ee for lifting the water. Pumps are 
manufactured for use on shallow or deep wells, but eer the right kind 
of pump is fi ny. 
ants will not only be freed from the disease, but they will earn more 
wages and increase the irrosnastes of the village. 
Note on a small outbreak of lobar pneumonia in Baghdad 
due to a vps of the Gaertner-Paratyphoid group. 
y W. MacAvam 
uring the past pins nas s a number of ai i Ky SE gating 
B. para. 
B, hav 
that similar pana have been recorded in a number of cases in other 
areas of Mes 
(2) Daring’ Soptomber, 1918, a series of 5 cases of fever occurred, from 
the blood of which this ee negro was isolated. 
Two of these patents , who were aay meu f lobar ii gene eat 
died. At autopsy, the same colifo nemes was isolated the 
lungs and spleen and in one ssi fons the gall-bladder a! 
to t ked eye. No en in crepe one 
culture from the lung juice. The other three cases of ng were & 
with a certai bro 
ulmonary lesions. All three cases recovere 
: (8) pts account is given of the eeepholopiont and cultural characters 
of the organisms which correspond to those of the ee a 
group. Serologically it was found to become agglutinable, after n 
