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Government of Bengal Public Health Department Malaria & Agriculture in Bengal How to Reduce Malaria in Bengal by Irrigation

1925

Sixteen years later it was estimated that "one-fourth of the southern one-eighth of the eastern three-eighths of the western and five-eighths of the northern divisions of the district were still uncultivated and under jungle." At the time of the permanent settlement only one quarter of Mymensingh district was under cultivation and in 1839 Dr. [...] The embanking of the country and the shutting out of river water from the surface of the delta was further marked by the simultaneous occurrence of appalling epidemics of malaria a serious decline of agriculture ant the progressive depopulation of the affected areas." 21 CHAPTER II. [...] The country presents at any rate all the geological conditions suitable for the development of malarial fevers undulations of the surface hardly perceptible periodical inundations over vast tracts of land marshes and lagoons of great extent along the banks of the rivers great elevation of the temperature in summer." Bouffier (1857) speaking of the adjoining deltas of the Parana river and the [...] Lombardy during the dark ages ; the numerous rivers were unregulated and uncontrolled ; and some notices of the state of the country during the tenth century prove that the inevitable results had followed in the formation of vast marshes and the abandonment of extensive districts." Many of the in darions tracts of Italy have long since been restored from the state of ruin into which they had on [...] Western Bengal contains the deltas of the Salai the Kasai the Dhalkisor the Danmdar the Adjai and the Mor and part of the delta of the Ganges.
technology medicine science
Pages
247
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143425
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-iv Chas Bentley view
Introduction
1-3 unknown view
Chapter I. Malaria and Agriculture in Bengal
4-20 unknown view
Chapter II. The Effect of Embankments in causing Malaria and Agricultural Decline
21-37 unknown view
Chapter III. Agricultural Decline in the Burdwan Fever Tracts
38-47 unknown view
Chapter IV. The Effect of Embankments on Malaria
48-55 unknown view
Chapter V. Agricultural Decline and Malaria in Eastern Bengal
56-64 unknown view
Chapter VI. How to Prevent the Extension of Malaria in Bengal
65-82 unknown view
Chapter VII. The Amelloration of Malaria in the Deltaic Tracts of Bengal
83-122 unknown view
Chapter VIII. Bonification
123-174 unknown view
Chapter IX. Conclusion
175-188 unknown view
Appendices
i-lii unknown view

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