Five Years of Anti-Malaria Work at Barwadih Railway Settlement
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General.?Barwadih, a railway settlement on the Gomoh-Sone East Bank branch of East Indian Railway, is 18 miles south-west of Daltonganj. It is situated 348 miles west of Calcutta in the hilly tracts of the Ranclii plateau in the Palamau district of Bihar province. The range of hills to the south of the colony is a branch of the Vindhyas. Physical geography and meteorological data. ?Latitude 23.5?, longitude 85?, elevation 900 to 1,800 feet, temperature maximum 108? to 118?, minimum 38? to 32?F., humidity varies from 15 to 20 in the hot weather to 90 during the monsoon. The subsoil water rises from 4
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