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THE Report of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of Bombay shows that, among other causes of death in that Presidency in the year 1881, 1209 persons died from snake bite. The names of the snakes are not given, but it is probable that the cobra was the chief offender, the echis and bungarus accounting for those not slain by that snake. The monthly prevalence of deaths from this cause is interesting, as it shows at what period of the year efforts for destruction of snakes might be most effectively carried on; it also shows that there was an increase of thirty deaths on those of the preceding year; and it suggests that, however vigorous these efforts may have been, the result is not so satisfactory as could be wished, as a comparison of the deaths in 1881 with the mean of those of five preceding years shows that (in 1881 at least) the number had increased.
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FAYRER, J. DEATHS FROM SNAKE BITE IN BOMBAY . Nature 27, 556 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027556b0
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