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Excerpt from Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Vol. 10: Issued by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; April 29, 1916, to February 8, 1917 The earliest recorded statements concerning this peculiar affection which I have been able to find are those made in January, 1900, by Dr. R. G. S. Bell, District Medical Officer of May Pen, and by Dr. H. G. Tillman, at Vere, in February of the same year. Other records, between 1900 and 1905, were given by Drs. Ker, J. A. L. Calder, Edwards, Turton, Cooke, A. W. Thomson, and Earle. During the following year (1905-6) the disease was much less extensive and prevailed for a shorter period, viz., December to February. It occurred most at Newport, a district which had not been mentioned in the previous outbreak. The year 1906 is an important one in the history of the affection, for a letter was addressed to the authorities of other West Indian Islands, describing the disease and enquiring whether anything similar was prevalent in those localities. Replies were mainly in the negative; two only are quoted as of interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.