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I HAVE read with interest Dr. Bentley's interpretation of the figures relating to the anti-malarial works at Klang and Port Swettenham Published by Dr. Trayers and myself, and I am familiar with Dr. Bentley's valuable paper on the human factor in malaria. This factor is undoubtedly of profound importance in certain outbreaks; but at Klang and Port Swettenham the sequence of events was not to be explained by Dr. Bentley's theory, and he has, I think, overlooked two points in ray published reports which at once set aside his explanation of the figures.
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WATSON, M. Drainage and Malaria. Nature 85, 471–473 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/085471b0
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