Malaria in the Duars

But the facts given in the body of this report suggest that the extraordinary prevalence of malaria in the Duars—for we may state without going into details that we found malaria extraordinarily prvalent and peculiarly intense throughout the whole area—is not solely or even mainly the result of special facilities for the breeding of anpheles or of the existence of a particular species bu [...] He believes on the contrary that the causes at work in producing the intense malaria of the Roman Campagna are it the main bona up with the social and economic condition of the people and especially with the hardships that the labourers have to undergo while working in the Campagna under a system. which leaves them largely in the hands of the headmen and labour contractors a statement singul [...] A glance at the map of Bengal will show that the districts that have been from time to time involved in epidemic malarial outbreaks bear a certain relationship to Calcutta ; that they are practically identical with the great industrial areas to the north and west of the city and the expanding fan of railways that link the metropolis tthe great districts on the north-east and north-west. [...] Some idea of the wide range from which the component colonies of a line are drawn and the resulting mixture of peoples Will be gathered from the accompanying plan of a small portion of a line and the projetion on the map of the recruiting districts of the source of the various colonies composing it. [...] But the opening of the gardens in the Darjeeling terai and later the etension of the industry to the Duars a tract ceded to the British after the Bhutan war led to the demand for immigrant labour on an icreasing scale for these districts also; especially has the Duars with its great extent of virgin soil offered a new and rich field for the exploittion of tea and the consequent importati