Captain Rogers' recent investigations in malaria / by G.M. Giles.

  • Giles, George Michael, 1853-1916.
Date:
1901
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Credit: Captain Rogers' recent investigations in malaria / by G.M. Giles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Reprinted from The. Indian Medical Gazette, Vol. XXXVrl (No. 2. Feb. 1901). CAPTAIN ROGERS’ RECENT INVESTIGA- TIONS IN MALARIA. By G. M. GILES, p.b.c.s., LIEUT.-COL., I.M.S. I have read with interest the discussion in the Indian Medical Gazette on the above subject and, in connection therewith, desire to draw the attention of your readers in general, and of Captain Rogers in particular, to^a table* published at p. 30 of the current report of the Sanitary Commissioner, North-Western Pro- vinces and Oudh, showing the death-rates in certain places before and after the introduction of modern water-supplies and drainage. This table has been published annually for several years, and they are necessarily readily ac- cessible to all officers of the Sanitary Department in all provinces, so that it is the more difficult to understand how Captain Rogers could be led to base so wide a generalization on his observations without being at the pains to ascertain what alterations of mortality bad elsewhere followed the introduction of a piped and filtered water-