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SOME time ago a very interesting series of articles, by Mr. Buchan, upon the connection between certain meteorological conditions and the zymotic diseases, as illustrated by the mortuary returns of the London district, appeared in NATURE. Happening to have undertaken, at the request of the provincial superintendent of census operations, certain investigations concerning the life statistics of the population of the North-West Provinces and Oudh, just about the time when Mr. Buchan's articles appeared, it occurred to me that it would be worth while to see whether any similar concomitant variations of meteorological conditions and causes of death could be detected in India. The results arrived at are so curious, and at the same time so definite, that I think they may be of interest to readers of this journal.
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HILL, S. The Effects of the Weather Upon Death Rate and Crime in India . Nature 29, 338–340 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029338a0
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