xxxvi Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



Modern disinfectants also, when reliable makes 

 are used, go a long way to help. Fortunately, 

 the members of the Caucasian race are to a 

 great extent immune from the dread visitations. 

 This is in a great measure due, no doubt, to 

 personal cleanliness and the sanitary mode of 

 life practised by them. The danger of infec- 

 tion is lessened in their case by strictly clean 

 surroundings and habits ; and the germs can 

 only be indirectly conveyed by the servitors, 

 or by personal contact with the natives. The 

 highest point of danger is always at the change 

 of the seasons, which are mostly accompanied 

 by extraordinary weather conditions, either of 

 heat or damp and cold. 



The best preventive is to preserve a calm, 

 unruffled mind ; one must never give way to 

 fear or morbid moods ; be a little extra 

 careful at this season what you eat and 

 what you drink, but do not ever give in to 

 funk ; that is the worst thing one can do, 

 for it has been conclusively proven that 

 people have been attacked and have suc- 

 cumbed through sheer funk. The very 

 stamina of body and mind of a European 

 is his best safeguard. Nervous and weak 

 individuals are, therefore, better in some 

 other localities at such a time of stress. The 

 oft-repeated precept of boiling all water before 

 using it for drinking purposes is a wise pre- 

 caution. However, since the boiling takes 

 out most of the essential properties it will be 



