On Epidemic and Endemic Fever in the Saharunpore District
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we are again in want of satisfactory reliable data. None exist that I know of. But if it is so, surely fever should be prevalent at all seasons when the heat is sufficient to generate the poison. Irrigation is used chiefly, I believe, to supplement the natural rain-fall, so that if it acts in this way as a cause, it ought to do so more in seasons of deficient rains than in other years, for then the condition of drying would be earlier and
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Fever in the Saharunpore District
the more practical parts of this paper, and we now print his remarks upon the subject of Saharunpore fever. Dr. Garden in a private communication has remarked that much stress has been laid upon the relation between canal irrigation and the fever of Saharunpore as cause and effect, and suggested that a reference should be made to a correspondence with the Medical Board in 1818, regarding excess...
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