TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PART I.-INTRODUCTORY.
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Section I. Brief Description of Bombay ... ... 1
,, 2. Population of Bombay. ... ... 2
Education ... ... 4
Occupation ... ... 4
Wages ... ... 4
Rent ... ... 4
Food ... ... 5
Indebtedness ... ... 8
,, 3. Municipal Administration ... ... 8
Sanitation ... ... 9
,, 4. Vital Statistics ... ... 10
Annual mortality ... ... 10
Seasonal mortality ... ... 11
Sex mortality ... ... 12
Effect of migration upon mortality ... ... 12
Death-rates ... .. 14
Census population and actual population ... ... 16
Error in death-rates ... ... 18
Causes of death ... 19
PART II.-MALARIA IN BOMBAY. ... ...
CHAPTER I.-HISTORY OF MALARIA IN BOMBAY 21
II.-MEASUREMENT OF MALARIA IN BOMBAY ... ... 25
Section 1. Spleen Index ... ... 26
1st Spleen Census in Bombay ... ... 27
2nd Spleen Census in Bombay ... ... 27
Racial spleen index ... ... 30
Relative size of spleen ... ... 32
,, 2. Blood Examination ... ... 33
Parasite index ... ... 33
Numerical estimation of parasites ... ... 35
Relative intensity of infection ... ... 37
Species of parasite ... ... 38
Seasonal infection 39
Relation of parasites to splenic enlargement ... ... 41
,, 3. Malaria as a Cause of Death in Bombay ... ... 41
Total fever mortality ... ... 41
Recorded mortality from malaria ... ... 43
Seasonal mortality indicating malaria mortality ... ... 44
Deaths among children indicating malaria mortality ... ... 46
Effect of malaria upon births, etc. ... ... 48
,, 4. Malaria as a Cause of Sickness in Bombay ... ... 49
CHAPTER III.-EPIDEMIC MALARIA IN BOMBAY ... ... 54
IV.-THE COST OF MALARIA IN BOMBAY ... ... 59
V.-THE MOSQUITOES OF BOMBAY ... ... 61
Section 1. General ... ... 61
,, 2. Malarial infection in Mosquitoes ... ... 66
,, 3. Mosquito Larvae and Breeding Places ... ... 69
Method of examining breeding places ... ... 69
Anopheline larvae ... ... 70
Neocellia stephensi ... ... 71
Culicine larvae 72
,, 4. The Natural Enemies of Mosquitoes ... ... 74
Insects ... ... 74
Fish ... ... 75
Plants ... ... 76
,, 5. Artificial means for destroying Mosquito Larva- 77
Gorgas' larvacide ... ... 78
Other larvacides ... ... 79
"XeX" new non-poisonous larvacide ... ... 80
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