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but causing an actual decrease hidden only by constant
immigration. (Vide Chapter VIII, Vital Statistics.)
(b) Difficulty in getting sufficient labour; restriction of the neces-
sary recruitment of labour to areas inhabited by specially
hardy races; excessive recruiting to keep up the labour
force; and poor efficiency even of the labour force main-
tained.
(c) A very small degree of true colonisaton and the general per-
sistence of temporary conditions.
(d) General backwardness of the district, due to sickness and
death among Europeans and their Bengali staff; avoid-
ance of the area by all who are not forced to enter it;
interference with all branches of the public service as well as;
of private enterprise owing to sickness, and difficulty in
maintaining a good class of subordinate, and other condi-
tions which hinder progress.
GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE PREVALENCE OF MALARIA IN THE DUARS.
The state of exalted malaria which we have described resembles
a permanent condition of epidemic malaria. Such a condition we may
for convenience term HYPER ENDEMICITY.
but causing an actual decrease hidden only by constant
immigration. (Vide Chapter VIII, Vital Statistics.)
(b) Difficulty in getting sufficient labour; restriction of the neces-
sary recruitment of labour to areas inhabited by specially
hardy races; excessive recruiting to keep up the labour
force; and poor efficiency even of the labour force main-
tained.
(c) A very small degree of true colonisaton and the general per-
sistence of temporary conditions.
(d) General backwardness of the district, due to sickness and
death among Europeans and their Bengali staff; avoid-
ance of the area by all who are not forced to enter it;
interference with all branches of the public service as well as;
of private enterprise owing to sickness, and difficulty in
maintaining a good class of subordinate, and other condi-
tions which hinder progress.
GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE PREVALENCE OF MALARIA IN THE DUARS.
The state of exalted malaria which we have described resembles
a permanent condition of epidemic malaria. Such a condition we may
for convenience term HYPER ENDEMICITY.
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| Description | " ... being the second report to the advisory committee appointed by the Government of India to conduct an enquiry regarding blackwater and other fevers prevalent in the Duars". By S. R. Christophers and C. A. Bently. Contains information on immigration, economic influence and Duars labour system. Describes anopheles mosquitoes, medical treatment and sanitation. Includes black-water fever. Some tables. |
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