EDITORIAL. 351 



The General Hospital, Colombo — Gases of liver abscess, 1891-1906. 



Year. 



Number 

 of cases. 



Euro- 

 peans 

 (whites). 



Natives. 



History 

 of dysen- 

 tery and 

 alcohol. 



Arncebic. 



Bacteria. 



Number 



operated 



on. 



Number 

 died. 





5 

 11 

 12 

 17 

 9 

 6 

 18 

 12 

 30 

 33 



«1 

 4 

 5 

 8 

 3 

 2 



10 

 4 



16 



10 



4 



7 



9 

 6 

 4 

 8 

 8 

 14 

 23 



4 

 8 

 7 

 13 



14 

 9 

 18 

 19 



3 

 8 



17 



4 

 13 



8 

 18 



22 



2 

 3 

 5 

 6 

 4 



4 

 12 

 11 



5 

 11 

 12 

 16 

 9 

 6 

 18 

 12 

 30 

 33 



2 

 4 

 6 

 6 

 1 

 2 

 9 

 5 

 10 

 15 





1899' 















Total 



153 



63 



90 



104 



99 



54 



152 



60 



a Among Europeans a very large proportion of the cases of liver abscess has been 

 in French soldiers from Saigon homeward hound by reason of ill health. 

 b In 1899 one had history of trauma only ; in 1905 two. 



Dr. J. J. Vassal, of the Institut Pasteur, Nhatrang, Indo-China, 

 gives us the following table from the service of Dr. Gaide, senior major 

 surgeon of colonial troops, Hanoi, Tonquin, China: 



Morbidity and mortality in patients by sanitary districts, in French Indo-China, 



after operation for suppurating hepatitis, in the years 1904, 1905. 



1906, and 1907. 



Sanitary districts. 



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1905. 



1906. 



1907. 



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