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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    snpply, for it is impossible to imagine that any diminution in malarial fevers and splenic enlargement could fail to show itself in a dimi- nution of the general deatli-rate. For the benefit of those to whom the above reports may not be readily accessible, the figures bearing on the question are extracted below :— Town. -c o 5 ^ o o ^ t- C r: c c a o • SP — ©: c3 > P'*G G © Q*' a -a G ci ^ © O- t- © -*3 £ © a © -h Remarks Cawnpore 47-83 4115 'I I extract here onlj Allahabad 28-70 25-77 the data as to towns provided with a filter- Lucknow 43 70 4 4*68 ed supply ; places sup- plied with uufiltered Benares 48-81 39 90 water have been ex- cluded, as also have Meerut 35-06 32 13 cantonments and hill stations. Agra 35-46 32-23 The addition of this table to the Sanitary Reports was probably initiated with the view of illustrating the benefits conferred by modern sanitation • but, if this be the case, the compilers must have been most disagreeablj' surprised, for with hardly an exception a rise, and not a fall, of mortality has followed. There are, of course* absolutely no statistics extant of any value whatever as to the absolute number of deaths referable to malaria in any Indian town, but Captain Rogers will not, I presume, be disposed