The Place of Treatment in an Antimalarial Campaign
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1 THE PLACE OF TREATMENT IN AN ANTIMALARIAL CAMPAIGN By W. B. McQUEEN, M3, ch.B. (Glasgow) d.t.m. (Liverpool) Introduction The practice with which this paper deals is situated in Upper Assam, near the North Eastern Frontier, and comprises ten tea gardens owned by five companies, one company having five gardens, one company two, and three companies one each. The district is bisected by a river, and the areas occupied by the gardens abound in river-flood plains, in broad and narrow plains on which rice is grown in the
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دوره 69 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016