Biochemistry and War Problems

carriers among the troops. Tllus, in one regiment a carrier was discovered in the regimental kitchen. In dnothler, which had lately received reinforcements, no less tllan 96-men had to be examined before'tlhe carrier was found. Bit the source of infection was not always in the troops. The pa t of Flanders that we held was a hotbed of enteric, and many cases were found in the civil population. The searchl for these, in wllich the bacterio- logists were aided by the Belgian sanitary officer, Dr. de Wulf, and also by the Society of Friends, was very difficult.