Some Preventive Measures Adopted in the Presidency of Madras during the Late Epidemic Prevalence of Plague in India
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place on the frontiers of the Presidency, yet the number of cases which resulted from the repeated importation of infection was relatively by no means large. The Native States of Hyderabad and Mysore, both of which adjoin the western border of the Madras Presidency, are in constant communication with it by road and rail. In these two Native States, with a combined estimated population of about 17 millions, up to June 30th, 1899, 20,000 or more plague deaths occurred; while in the Madras Presidency the total number of plague deaths up to the same date in
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دوره 19 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2017