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WE have before us four volumes of papers presented to the All-India Sanitary Conference held at Lucknow in January of last year. Vol. ii. commences with an interesting account of the methods by which in Italy the silt of rivers is utilised for raising the level of the soil, while at the same time the level of the water is lowered by drainage. The system can be carried out with the primary object in view of reclaiming swampy land or the agricultural improvement can also be considered, an almost necessary procedure from the financial side. How far the method is applicable to India is a matter of great interest. One factor that has to be determined is the amount of silt in the particular river under consideration, and, secondly, if agricultural improvement is to be considered, whether the silt is of manurial value. The views of the agriculturist, the engineer, and the sanitarian all need consideration in a problem of this magnitude. How manifold and fundamental the problems are, a consideration of the papers dealing with malarja will show. It is indeed no little achievement that this immense malaria problem is now being studied in India in all its aspects, and that its solution has already progressed far from the facile position held not so long ago by many that the filling up of a few pools and ditches was the answer.
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S., J. Sanitation in India 1 . Nature 95, 77–78 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095077a0
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