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THE NUMEBICAL TABLES OE THE INDIAN PKOVINCES.
found where, without the means being cooler, the breezes are more regular and
more refreshing and the atmosphere decidedly purer; malaria, if existing, can much
more easily be removed where all around is the open sea, and no neighbouring
tracts are to be feared equally jungly and deleterious as the one to be purified. The
temperature may be said to remain throughout too warm for Europeans, and therefore
relaxing, a few months of the cool season excepted.
Of the diseases frequent among the natives cholera1 and fevers are particularly
dangerous.
In loco every station complains more or less, but on a change of residence the
remembrance generally becomes decidedly milder. When examining the Reports made
to Parliament by the military and medical officers of the Indian Army, we may be rather
surprised that not one station is met with, I dare say, the reporters of which would
not manifest certain tendency at least to show that in other regards neighbouring
stations or those of a different climatological character may be worse still; and if
we consider that those who report are those who have suffered all the inconveniences,
we can but acknowledge their courage; uje souffre, mais je ne me plains pas" is their
devise, as long as it cannot be helped. But unless interpreted by one's own experience,
it might perhaps at first be understood too mildly before entering into the examin-
ation of the numerical data of temperature and mortality.
Statistical tables, including the diseases of various elements of native population
could nowhere be found; some numerical data I got for several towns are chiefly
based upon the conditions of the Europeans.
1 The most savage tribes are not those least suffering when it breaks out. In the Khassia Hills, where every
corpse is burnt, it is done so rigorously that in the rainy season they absolutely conserve them in honey till the
ceasing of the rain allows of the burning. (Compare Hooker, "Himalayan Journals," Vol. II., p. 276, and Emil
Schlagintweit, "Buddhism in Tibet," p. 269.) A few years ago (1855) the cholera, beginning close to Cherrapunji,
broke out with such violence, that many a body had to be thrown into the ravines, whence I succeeded in consequence
in obtaining the first skeleton of this race.
THE NUMEBICAL TABLES OE THE INDIAN PKOVINCES.
found where, without the means being cooler, the breezes are more regular and
more refreshing and the atmosphere decidedly purer; malaria, if existing, can much
more easily be removed where all around is the open sea, and no neighbouring
tracts are to be feared equally jungly and deleterious as the one to be purified. The
temperature may be said to remain throughout too warm for Europeans, and therefore
relaxing, a few months of the cool season excepted.
Of the diseases frequent among the natives cholera1 and fevers are particularly
dangerous.
In loco every station complains more or less, but on a change of residence the
remembrance generally becomes decidedly milder. When examining the Reports made
to Parliament by the military and medical officers of the Indian Army, we may be rather
surprised that not one station is met with, I dare say, the reporters of which would
not manifest certain tendency at least to show that in other regards neighbouring
stations or those of a different climatological character may be worse still; and if
we consider that those who report are those who have suffered all the inconveniences,
we can but acknowledge their courage; uje souffre, mais je ne me plains pas" is their
devise, as long as it cannot be helped. But unless interpreted by one's own experience,
it might perhaps at first be understood too mildly before entering into the examin-
ation of the numerical data of temperature and mortality.
Statistical tables, including the diseases of various elements of native population
could nowhere be found; some numerical data I got for several towns are chiefly
based upon the conditions of the Europeans.
1 The most savage tribes are not those least suffering when it breaks out. In the Khassia Hills, where every
corpse is burnt, it is done so rigorously that in the rainy season they absolutely conserve them in honey till the
ceasing of the rain allows of the burning. (Compare Hooker, "Himalayan Journals," Vol. II., p. 276, and Emil
Schlagintweit, "Buddhism in Tibet," p. 269.) A few years ago (1855) the cholera, beginning close to Cherrapunji,
broke out with such violence, that many a body had to be thrown into the ravines, whence I succeeded in consequence
in obtaining the first skeleton of this race.