Infectious Hepatitis in Massachusetts

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Abstract
THE recent literature describing the experience of the armed forces with infectious hepatitis is voluminous, but reports on the disease in the civilian population have been few. This article summarizes our present knowledge of the disease and indicates how nearly our observations coincide with or differ from those of others. The clinical material used as the basis of this paper has been collected by means of visits to Massachusetts communities from which the disease has been informally reported to the Department of Public Health. Approximately 175 cases of infectious hepatitis were uncovered in Massachusetts in these investigations, but only 151 . . .