Famine and Fever in Rajpootana
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were not fever seasons. Thus, evidencing both a very indistinct acquaintance with what I have written, and greater ignorance of the actual facts, Dr. Lyons labours to prove that I am wrong by quoting official reports from Augor, Mehidpoor, Goona, Sehore, Siderpoor, Deolee, Erinpoorah, and Kherwarrah. The first five places mentioned, which at page 228 of the Gazette he refers to as within the Rajpootana States, are not in Rajpootana! but far away in Central India! For Dr. Lyons' information I again state that during the first famine year, 1868, marked by the absence of the ordinary rainfall, there was throughout Rajpootana much less than the ordinary prevalence of fever, as mentioned in my article published in the July number of the Gazette. The fact is, Dr. Lyons not being sufficiently well acquainted with what I wrote on the subject, has confused the two famine years in Rajpootana (1868-69), and has taken what was written with reference to the former as appiicable to the latter year. Of 1868, the first year of the famine, I certainly did write nearly as stated by Dr. Lyons, that there
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