0 an infectious disease with severe diarrhoea/diarrhea -- dysenteri
A dysentery patient requires one week for recovery.
The water for these wells came from superficial infiltrations from the main canal, resulting in widespread dysentery and enteritis.
Several developed dysentery and some actually died in the streets.
Deaths from dysentery and diarrhoea also contributed to high mortality rates as did deaths from beri-beri.
Considering where the camp was situated, it was no surprise that disease was rife, particularly malaria and dysentery.
In this confined and gloomy space the newspaper's correspondent and the doctor found a man suffering from fever and an emaciated child ill with dysentery.
In contrast, the reported incidence of bacillary dysentery decreased more than sixfold from 1.3 to 0.2/10 000 persons.
Deaths were usually attributed to malaria, debility, anaemia, diarrhoea, tuberculosis, cholera and dysentery.
