Commentary on 'some observations on an epidemic of sand-fly fever, occurring in one of HM ships'. 1918.

摘要

The ship in which I am serving recently underwent a refit at an East Indian port; owing to the unhealthy locality of the dockyard, the officers and men were accommodated ashore during the period of repairs, which was of nearly two months' duration (August 9 to October 5), one watch being quartered in the local Sailors' Home - in order to assist with the work on the ship - whilst the other was sent to a rest camp at a hill station. The watches changed places at the end of a month. There were several cases of what was apparently sand-fly fever among the men living in the Sailors' Home but not a single case occurred among those residing at the hill station. In both places the men slept under mosquito nets. As I was with the men in the hills when these cases occurred in the port, I had no opportunity of studying them, so these observations will be confined to those cases which actually developed and were treated on board.