Ascaris Lumbricoides Infection in Malabar District

a preponderance over Malabar in this respect. The unhygienic method of disposal of the nightsoil and the excreta, the shallowness of most of its wells, the dirty habit of many of its folk, its peculiar climate and the vegetarian life of most of its people are among the most potent contributions towards the exuberant propagation of these human foes. Picture to yourself a compound with damp soil, with no definite arrangement for privy accommodation, the wells or rather the apologies for them, shallow, unparapeted and without any cement lining, dug at a spot which has the lowest level in the compound, the whole compound an expanse of wanderingstreams and stagnant pools in the rainy season and the unprotected wells swelling up with the sub-soil drainage; picture these alarming outrages to sanitary principles and you have a clue