Malaria according to the new researches / by Angelo Celli; translated from the 2nd Italian edition by John Joseph Eyre; with an introduction by Patrick Manson.
- Date:
- 1900
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Malaria according to the new researches / by Angelo Celli; translated from the 2nd Italian edition by John Joseph Eyre; with an introduction by Patrick Manson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![therefore very low—as it was, for exam]>le, in 1890 here in the hospitals of Rome, beiii^ 7’7o per thousand of the patients suffering from malai-ia. Calculating from the number of deaths the number of patients, we arrive approximately at about two million cases a year. The mean duration of a malarial infection, which usnall}'’ recurs, is generally long. On occasions it may continue for years. The loss of labour and of production, and the expenses entailed in dealing with this disease, consequently amount to several millions of francs. If we add that the average life of the worker in malarious places is shorter, and the infant mortality higher, than in healthy places, we get a somewhat proximate idea of the financial losses that this scourge causes to our country. Because, if we calculate that, owing to malaria, about 5,000,000 acres of land and very many localities, as, for instance, the Agro Romano, remain not uncultivated but certainly imperfectly cultivated, the economic loss derived from it must undoubtedly be enormous. The great railway industries also feel it very much. According to the very accurate calculations of Ricchi, the Adriatic Railway Company alone, for 1,400 kilometres of railways and for 6,416 workmen in the malarious zones, spends, on account of malaria alone, the large sum of 1,050,000 francs a year. The army in its turn, from 1877 to the end of 1897, has had more than 300,000 (about 322,678) cases of malaria. Finally, a certain correlation exists between emi- gration and malaria in the sense that the regions O ‘](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21931392_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
