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This secondary diminution after the rains is not by any means 

 universal, and there is no indication of a cold weather recrudescence 

 in the following cases, where the maximum mortality was at the end 

 of the monsoon. 



///. ViUafjes in which the maximum m^ortality occurred at oi' 

 nea7' the end of the Monsoon. 



In a good many villages the deaths appeared to occur fairly 

 regularly between August and February as the following show : — 



IV. Villages in ir/iich the deaths are everdy distributed 

 between August and February. 



In a few cases the figures show little evidence of a seasonal 

 period of maximum intensity throughout the year. 



