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VII.-SICKNESS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE MEDI-
CAL TREATMENT OF THE SICK.
SICKNESS.
The amount of sickness is very great. Among 100 persons ex-
amined in one line 16, not counting young children, were definitely
ill with fever, anmia, etc. In a portion of another line containing
a total population of 146 persons, 70 adults were away, 32 at home.
Among these latter 6 were found to be seriously ill. During the
healthiest season of the year in a line containing about 3,000 total
population 14 cases of serious sickness were found, 12 were malaria,
one phthisis and malaria, and one dysentry and malaria. In a line
containing about 279 people, 26 were either themselves sick or were
prevented from going to work on account of children seriously ill.
In a line visited in September every house occupied had one or more
persons sick; and in another line, in a different part of the district
during the same month, we found a nearly similar condition of things,
many families showing more members sick than healthy. In three
houses in a group, in a line containing new coolies, we found in the
first house 12 people from Orissa, of whom six were ill with fever.
In the second were two Santals; the wife was ill with fever and spleen,
the husband at work. In the third house were two Ooryas, the hus-
band was ill with fever and a large ulcer, and the wife was at work.
In the case of a family of four now coolies from Lohardugga we found
only one old man able to work, two of the coolies having fever and one
a large ulcer. In a house with six persons, three young adults and
three children, two adults and a child had fever. In a house with two
coolies, a man and a boy of ten, who had been up a month from Dhum-
ka, both were laid up with fever. In a small garden with about
300 or 350 working coolies, 31 were seen who had been incapacitated
from work for a considerable time owing to serious illness; 21 of these
were suffering from intense anmia.
In a house were a married couple, their son's wife, a daughter
and a child of 8. The child's father (their son) had died, the old man
and woman had to be helped to walk to the sardar's house, the daughter
was intensely anmic and apathetic, the mother was seen sitting in
the verandah with fever, miserable and apathetic; the child had a