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The Malarial Fevers of Jerusalem and their prevention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

John Cropper
John Cropper
Affiliation:
Ramallah, Jerusalem.
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In a previous paper I referred to observations by Dr E. W. G. Masterman, on the prevalence of malaria in Jerusalem. Since that time Dr Masterman has searched various places for Anopheles in and near the city, and has found numerous larvae in the Birket Mamilla (or “Upper Pool of Gihon”) in winter, the water of which is conducted by covered conduits to Turkish baths in the city. The pool is dry in summer.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , October 1905 , pp. 460 - 466
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1905

References

1 Cropper, J.. (1902), Journ. of Hygiene, vol. II, pp. 47–57. “The Geographical Distribution of Malarial Fever and Anopheles in Upper Palestine.” (See p. 56.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar

1 So scarce is water that at the end of summer from £5 to £10 can be readily obtained for a cistern of water.

1 See Cropper, J. (1. v. 1905). “Note on a form of malarial parasite found in and around Jerusalem. Journ. Tropical Med. vol. VIII, pp. 132—133. One figure.”.Google Scholar

1 Early in July, 1904, five healthy men went down from this village (Ramallah) to work on the Haifa-Damascus Railway in the Jordan valley near Beisan. In 17 days (almost exactly) they returned all ill with fever, bilious vomiting, etc., the illness having lasted about a week. Three of them were well enough to come to the dispensary here for medicine, the other two were seen in bed in their houses. The native doctor here pronounced them all to be cases of enteric fever. The blood of one of them (temperature 102°F.) on examination showed a fair number of crescents. All the cases were therefore diagnosed as bilious remittent fever and all recovered in a few days under quinine, at least 20 grains daily, and, so far as I know, only one case relapsed later. In all probability all of these men had the form of malaria so prevalent here in infants; amongst the latter crescents are practically unknown, though splenic enlargement is common. This corresponds with what A. Plehn found in Africa as quoted by Manson (Tropical Diseases, ed. 1900, p. 66).

2 In his lecture on the sanitation of Jerusalem, Pal. Expl. Fund Quarterly Statement, Jan. 7th, 1905.

1 A bucket containig some live charcoal and a few handfuls of sulphur is lowered into the cistern, which is then tightly shut up and left all night.