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Appendix No. 11.

      If then any village which gets the disease severely were to move
from the infected site during the following cold-weather months,
when the fever cases are at a minimum, then they may be sure that
they will not suffer in the same way during the next rainy season as
they had done in the last, and if they also carry out the advice pre-
viously given for avoiding the infection of a village and prevent all
communication with other infected villages around them, they ought
to escape from further attack by the epidemic, and thus avoid being
destroyed by the disease.

      If then the people of infected or threatened districts will only carry
out the advice which is given here, and which the Government have
gone to great trouble and expense to obtain for them, then the
spread of the disease and the great suffering and death-rate which it
causes will be greatly diminished; while if the headmen and people of
the villages refuse to carry out this advice, then it will be their own
fault if they are annihilated by the terrible epidemic which goes by the
name of kála-ázar.

LEONARD ROGERS, M.B., B.S., London, F.R.C.S., Eng.,
Surgeon-Captain, I. M.S.