418 DIED OF JUNGLE FEVER. 



season when the country had been rendered more than 

 usually unhealthy by excessive rains, which had ac- 

 companied the S.W. monsoon in 1861. Her Ladyship 

 was in consequence attacked by jungle fever, and on 

 reaching Calcutta about November 10, was found to 

 be seriously ill. The disease rapidly assumed an alarm- 

 ing aspect, and she sank, and expired early on the 

 morning of November 18. * The funeral took place 

 at Barrackpur, the country residence of the Governors- 

 General, 14 miles from Calcutta, on the banks of the 

 Hooghli, at a lovely bend of the river, which was one 

 of her favourite haunts. The traveller visiting St. 

 Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta, will there find a magnificent 

 monument erected to her memory. The epitaph upon 

 it, written by Lord Canning, begins, " Honours and 

 praises written on a tomb, are at best but a vain glory. " f 



Reverting however to the subject of the position 

 of Senchal from a sanitary point of view. The results 

 of all modern observations upon the subject of malarial 

 disease all tend to show that there is no practical 

 limit where it is possible to count on ascending beyond 

 its reach upon mountains, as ravines seem to act as 

 conduit pipes for conveying the poison along their 

 courses into the higher regions. Malarial fever in its 

 severest forms is therefore constantly found to attack 

 unwary travellers and others, encamping in ravines. 

 It is a matter of ascertained fact that there is no surer 

 way of contracting severe attacks of this disease than 

 camping or erecting houses in such situations. 



This tendency of fever to attack persons among 



* See The Rulers of India Series, " Earl Canning, " by Sir H. S. 

 Cunningham, 1891, page 211. 



f A copy from the Author's Notes taken on the spot. 



