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REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE GREEK 
ANTIMALARIA LEAGUE DURING THE 
YEAR 1907 
BY 
M. HADJIMICHALTS, President 
AND 
lEAN P. CARDAMATIS, General Secretary 
{Received for publication 13 April, 1908) 
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Greece takes rank among those countries wliich are the most 
infested by malaria. 
This plague existed here even in the remotest periods of antiquity, 
and Hippocrates, the father of medicine, not only mentions in his 
works all the various forms of the disease, but he also was aware 
of its connection with marshes, and of the influence of certain 
meteorological conditions, especially the frequency of rain, upon its 
development. 
We know that malaria has always existed in Greece since that 
time, and Professor Ross is certainly correct in attributing to a great 
extent the cause of her misfortunes, to this dreadful scourge. 
Official statistical information, concerning this disease, exists only 
for the last nine years, and is limited to the 12 largest towns of 
Greece, with a population of over 10,000 inhabitants each, or a total 
of 446,743 souls. 
According to these statistics (Table A) it is shewn that the 
average annual number of deaths from malaria, in the 12 towns 
referred to, is 287 or 9-8 per 10,000 inhabitants. 
The first place, as regards the number of deaths, is held by Volo, 
m Thessaly (21-89 I0,ooo); next in order follow Pyrgos, in the 
Peloponnesus (19-48), Larissa (17) and Triccala, in Thessaly. (1472) 
and Calamata, in the Peloponnesus (i 3*38). 
It must, however, be observed, that these figures do not give an 
exact idea of the prevalence of malaria throughout the country, as 
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