THE 
JOURNAL 
OF THE 
THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO 
AND 
EASTERN ASIA. 
AN ESSAY ON CORAL REEFS AS THE CAUSE OF 
B LA KAN MAT! FEVER AND OF THE FEVERS 
IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE EAST. 
By Robert Little, Esq. Surgeon, 
Late Demonstrator of Anatomy at the Argyle Square School of 
Medicine , Edinburgh, Sfc. 
PART. I. 
ON THE MEDICAL TOPOGRAPHY OF SINGAPORE, PARTICULARLY ON 
ITS MARSHES AND MALARIA.* 
The three settlements of Pinang and Province Wellesley to the 
north, Malacca in the centre, and Singapore to the south, are situ¬ 
ated to the west of the Malay Peninsula, ranging between Latitude 
1° 17’ and 5° 25’ north, and Longitude 100° 25’ to 104° east. 
Possessing such a limited range of latitude and longitude, parts of 
each scarcely differ in temperature, or other atmospherical pheno¬ 
mena, and one settlement as little differs from another. 
All are possessed of a tropical sun that, by its light and heat, calls 
into existence organic life, and quickly hastens it through its vari¬ 
ous states, while the abundance of moisture either deposited by dew 
or gentle refreshing showers 
“ That more than weekly fall” 
keeps the atmosphere cool, and prevents the parching effect of the 
* In this paper some subjects deemed incomprehensible are attempted 
to be explained and data are furnished to enable the reader to form a com¬ 
parison between this, and other places. 
no. vni. AUGUST, 1848. 
YOL, III. 
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