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“ PROBLEM of Imperial magnitude.” “Epidemies of smallpox, cholera, and plague are grievous afflictions, but neither singly nor even collectively are they responsible for so much economic inefficiency, and what is worse, actual human misery, as the recurrent scoui'ge of malaria.” These words of the Viceroy and the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab respectively impress us with the magnitude and seriousness of the problem that the conference had to consider. If we attempt to translate these words into figures, we are met with difficulties, owing to the fact that the registrar of deaths in India is often the ignorant village chowkidar, but as a rough approximation, it may be assumed that the mean death-rate is about 5 per 1000, i.e. over a million, deaths annually throughout the country as a whole p whereas in the jails, owing to the care with which prisoners are treated, the mean death-rate from malaria is only 1 per 1000.
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Malaria Prophylaxis in India 1 . Nature 84, 240–241 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084240a0
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