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Case XII.—Pathajora garden. October 1907.

     Malpaharia Sirdar.

          Native country.—Santal Parganas.

          Length of residence in the Duars.—15 years.

       History.—Had been working lately at water works at the foot of the Pathajora
gorge. He got severely chilled and got bad fever for which he was given
quinine. There was no history of a rigor but severe vomiting and for twenty-
four hours he passed reddish black urine.

         Seen by us on the third day when the hæmoglobinuria was over. He was anæmic and
slightly jaundiced. The temperature was still high. The spleen was enlarged.
No parasites and no pigmented leucocytes. Engulfed shadow corpuscle present.

         A count of leucocytes gave :—

Case XIII.—Nagrakata garden. October 1907.

     European child. Age 3 years.

         History.—Had two attacks one on the 14th October and one on the 22nd October, in
both of which there was very transient hæmoglobinuria and the child very
slightly ill. It being noticed that the urine was red samples were on each
occasion sent to Doctor Stone who noticed the nature of the condition.

         Blood examined on the first day showed quartan parasites and pigmented leuco-
cytes.

Case XIV.—Jalpaiguri. November 1907.

          Police Constable. Second attack following that recorded as Case X.

          Seen by us on the third day. No malarial parasites. Four pigmented leucocytes seen in
a count of 500 cells. Engulfed red cells including one apparently unaltered
present in mononuclears cells.

Leucocytes count as follows :—