The Pandemic of Influenza in India in the Year 1918 *Note.—Thesis approved of for the degree of M.D. (London University). Received for publication, 28th August, 1923.—Ed., I.M.G.
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war, the engrossing problems which have followed in its wake, and the epidemic prevalence of influenza on a considerable scale within British shores have so fully occupied our attention that the calamitous happenings in India during 1918 may well have been somewhat obscured. Our minds, inured as it were, to the gigantic events of the past ten years, may have failed to appreciate fully the magnitude of the scourge which in 1918 swept over the length and breadth of India and, within
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