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I WAS stationed in Karachi, Sind, for more than twenty years. There was undoubtedly a strong belief with the Indians that the disturbance of ground for building led to fever; building operations may be estimated by the fact that I went to a city of 45,000 inhabitants and left 130,000. Not long before I left, the ground of the native town was disturbed by the installation for the first time of a system of underground drainage. I think, but am not sure, this was followed by an outbreak of fever.
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CONSTABLE, F. Malaria and Mosquitoes. Nature 63, 420 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/063420d0
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