ABSTRACTS AND EXTRACTS

S & EXTRACTS. ENTOZOA OF INDIAN FISHES. About the middle of 1SS3, when a wide-spread panic existed in Madras about the unwholesomeness of sea-fish as an article of diet owing tj the existence of certain parasites in them, Government, on the recommendation of the Board of Revenue, directed an inquiry to be made regarding the supposed fish disease. The Sanitary Commissioner of Madras and Dr. Bidie examined all the more common kinds of fish which are sold in the bazars, and submitted the parasites found to Dr. Cobbol i. This eminent helminthologist declares his belief that none of the parasites found are injurious to man, and that the fish scare is therefore groundless. The following table gives the particulars of the fish examined by the Sanitary Commissioner, Dr. Furnell Scientific name. Tamil name. Parasite. Nature. Sub-class i ? Teleostci. ORDER I?AC A NT MO PTE R YG11. Punni Kalava None Koduva Kalava None. Do. Entozoa