Epidemic Hepatitis

Abstract

AN epidemic of hepatitis occurred in Uttar Pradesh, India, during the months of May to September, 1949. Some of the 88 patients studied had been admitted to S. N. Hospital and the Military Hospital in Agra and to the P. L. Sharma Hospital, Police Hospital and Dufferin Hospital in Meerut.There were various clinical diagnoses (Table 1). Twenty patients died. Liver biopsy was performed in most cases.Three adult patients, as well as 4 fetuses of women with fulminant epidemic hepatitis who later died, were completely studied at autopsy. In these 88 cases, 20 of which were fatal, 37 patients . . .