Fever in the Punjab
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cause of the mortality of the province, and are the prime source of the bulk of the sickness amongst its people. Moreover they are not all of one kind, nor produced by the same causes. I have already alluded to the different kinds of fever as divisible into the two great classes of malarious and specific, according a*, on the one hand, they depend for their origin and growth upon meteoric and climatic influences, and according as, on the other, they owe their development and spread to certain conditions of daily life and economy. I proceed now to describe the prevalence and circumstances therewith connected, of each of these classes separately, in order the more clearly to understand the direction in which action should be taken in the matter of devising measures of prevention. 69. In.the mortality returns of the province the deaths from fevers are registered under that single generic term without distinction of type or form, and the aggregate figures, therefore, are of no use as an index to more than the actual registered mortality from that one class of diseases. But practically there is no great difficulty in estimating roughly tho relative frequency of periodic
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