Gr. H. F. Nuttall 
559 
1915, p. 70 (rev.)—Pouillaud, 1915, p. 56—Prowazek, 1915, p. 67—Rabe, 1915, 
p. 347—Ragg, 1915, p. 172—Railliet, 1895, p. 825—Raven, 1917, p. 64—Renault, 
1915, p. 206 (rev.)—Shevirev, 1914, p. 5—Shipley, 1915, p. 395; 1916, pp. 17, 19, 28, 
29, 31, 33—Sobel, 1913, p. 656—Soulima and Ebert, 1915, p. 340—Swellengrebel, 
1916 a, p. 7—Swoboda, 1915, p. 836—Uhlenhuth and Olbrich, 1915, p. 776—Van 
Ooteghem, 1836, p. 75 (see bibliogr.)—Wesenberg, 1915, p. 861—Whitfield, 1912, 
p. 1648 (refers to his Handbook on Skin Dis. published 1907)—Widmann, 18. vm. 
1915, p. 292—Ziamal, 1856 (see bibliogr.)—Zucker, 1915, p. 294. 
IV. PLAN OF DISINFESTATION ESTABLISHMENTS AND 
MODES OF PROCEDURE. 
“ One learnt early that effective delousing of a unit is one of the 
most troublesome duties that a medical officer can undertake ; it is 
not that it is usually difficult itself, but it needs a thoroughness and 
devotion to detail, and endless trouble to secure the cooperation of 
combatant and other officers which many a beginner does not realize, 
and from which many an old hand recoils. But the work is well 
worth doing....”— Buchanan (1917, p. 22). 
Both the plan of a disinfestation station and the mode of procedure 
adopted must necessarily depend on the facilities that are available in a 
locality and the circumstances that surround the men requiring treat¬ 
ment. This applies equally to soldiers, prisoners of war, and civilians. 
We shall confine ourselves chiefly to soldiers. 
Soldiers may be: (a) Stationed at or near a place where everything 
required is at hand and where a complete disinfestation plant can be 
established in conjunction with baths and laundry facilities. ( b) The 
foregoing conditions may hold but laundry facilities may be lacking 1 . 
( c ) Soldiers may be in a position of being able to undress, change their 
underclothes and bathe, no disinfestation station being available. 
(d) They may only have opportunities of undressing and occasionally 
washing, (e) They may have no opportunities of undressing and keeping 
themselves clean through being kept continually engaged or on the move; 
prisoners of war, as in the notorious case at Wittenberg, may be similarly 
placed. The difficulties of dealing with the louse problem grow by leaps 
and bounds as we depart from the ideal (a) and approach the last con¬ 
dition (e) above described, and measures must be adapted to all shades 
of intermediate circumstances. 
It is best to begin by considering the manner of solving the problem 
under favourable conditions and outlining a scheme for a complete 
1 See the instance described on p. 568. 
