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are equally dangerous to the health of an Indian ; 

 in fact, the Englishman is able to maintain his health 

 better than the Indian he has more money, he 

 lives in a better house, he eats better food, has plenty 

 of servants, and finds the best accommodation 

 wherever he goes, and with great care and a good 

 constitution may live a long and useful life in that 

 country. He may do that at a time and in a locality 

 where the natives are dying like flies from the illness 

 that appears in the vital statistics under the name 

 of " fevers." 



In the year 1918 the death-rate in India was over 

 62 per 1,000, whereas the same year in the United 

 Kingdom the death-rate wasrather over 17 per 1,000. 

 Both death-rates were abotrtthe average. In 1913 

 the death-rate in India was nearly 29 per 1,000, 

 and in the United Kingdom it was a little over 14 

 per 1,000. In India in the year 1918 the deaths 

 from cholera, small-pox, plague, fevers, dysentery, 

 amounted to 12,500,000, the total number of deaths 

 from all causes being rather less than 15,000,000, 

 out of a population of about 250,000,000. Of these 

 deaths rather over 11,000,000 appear under the 

 heading of " fevers." Of course this was an extra- 

 ordinary fatal year ; there were famine conditions 

 existing, and under famine conditions disease makes 

 short work of the people. In the year 1916 the 

 deaths were less than half just under 7,000,000. 

 This included rather over 4,000,000 due to the diseases 

 put under the heading of " fevers." The worst 

 feature of these diseases is not that they kill so 



