This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...wide apart. 363. The conditions of these districts, in regard to their meteorological peculiarities, will have to be studied in the endeavour to estimate rightly the causes contributing to the production of fever. The Meteorological Superintendent has not yet reduced and published the stational observations that are ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...wide apart. 363. The conditions of these districts, in regard to their meteorological peculiarities, will have to be studied in the endeavour to estimate rightly the causes contributing to the production of fever. The Meteorological Superintendent has not yet reduced and published the stational observations that are calculated to aid this branch of inquiry. No attempt therefore can be made to trace out the variations in the rates of fever mortality. A map is appended illustrative of the diffusion of fever in the year 1869. 364. An attentive consideration of the deaths from small-pox, in the four years ending 1869, will show the normal rise and fall of an epidema pox. gprea(j oyer these years. The mortality increased from 23,106 in 1866 to 34,330 in 1868, when there was a sudden fall to 17,448 in 1869, thus exhibiting one of the marked features of small-pox, viz., its rapid declension in virulence, when the epidemic has attained its full height. In a considerable number of the districts small-pox attained its greatest prevalence in the year 1868, a year remarkable for the general absence of cholera. But it must not be concluded from this that cholera and small-pox alternate with each other in the periods of their maximum intensity. It is perhaps often so, but not always. In some districts small-pox and cholera are known to prevail badly in the same year. Generally speaking the small-pox months precede the cholera months in each year, that is, small-pox is seasonally active from November to April or May; while cholera, especially in the districts affected by the southwest monsoon, is most frequent in July, August, September, and October. 3G5. The most remarkable thing about small-pox diffusion is the effect of Seasonal influences in seasonal causes in repress...
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