outbreaks, and as a general rule the Shcrvaroy fever is not of a severe 
type and is easily amenable to treatment. 
Assistant-Surgeon W. R. Cornish, Secretary to the Principal 
Inspector General Medical Department, who inquired minutely into 
the subject during his visit in 1861, is of opinion that the Shervaroy 
fever, when it does occur, is quite as much under control of medicine 
as the same form of disease elsewhere. 
" Climate suitable for Invalids. — \i is not improbable that some 
forms of disease, which are aggravated by the Nielgherry climate, 
may be treated with benefit on the Shervaroy HilSs, such as rheu- 
matism, chronic affection of the liver, bowels, air passages, &c. It is 
not however to invalids suffering from organic disease that our 
mountain climates hold out much ground of hope; but rather to 
those who are simply exhausted in mind and body from prolonged 
exposure to a high temperature in a low country, and who need rest 
from work and a cooler air to breathe. These are the cases which 
benefit in a remarkable degree from a short residence on the Shcr- 
varoy s. 
*' Admitting the full force of the objection that the hills are occa- 
sionally malarious, it is no less certain that they are free from many 
of those sources of disease which abound in the plains. Malignant 
cholera and dysentery destroy one- half of those who die in our 
European armies located on the plams, * fevers ' on the other hand, 
do not cause more than onc-tcnth of the whole mortality. There 
can be no question that where a choice of evils is to be had it is 
best to adopt the minor one. Our statistics show that the mortality 
from fevers, including the 'continued' and * typhoid' varieties in the 
Madras Presidency, do not exceed one per cent. ; whereas of every 
two Europeans attacked by the cholera- poison, one dies, and of every 
100 cases of dysentery, seven prove fatal." 
"The Shervaroy Hills have as yet enjoyed an immunity from 
cholera, and it is evident that with due attention to sanitation, this 
tenible pest can never obtain a footing. Its germs have, as before 
shown, been frequently introduced, but the conditions necessary to 
their development have as yet been wanting. Dysentery, hepatitis, 
