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Importance of distinguishing the different varieties of yellow fevers... 180
Epidemic malaria has a history, general and local. A single locality may be taken as typical for a
   great natural province...		 180
The Seharunpore district as typical, taking the epidemics from 1810 onwards. The epidemics from
   1810 to 1870, were generally and provincially, as well as locally manifested...		 180
The succession of epidemics of malarious fevers—
            Epidemic of 1809... 181
            Epidemic of 1816... 181
            Epidemic of 1829... 181
            Epidemic of 1834... 182
            Epidemic of 1840... 182
            Epidemics from 1850 onwards... 182
Association of the fever of Lower Bengal with the fever of Upper India... 183
Localisation of epidemic malaria in Upper India. The subject illustrated... 183
Localised malaria is not allied in its nature to enteric fever. Cases of Her Majesty's 85th and 79th
   Regiments...		 183
The association of epidemic malarious fever with famines and contagious fevers. Epidemic periods... 184
Malarious fevers, famine and contagious fevers between 1815 and 1820. Famine of 1818... 184
Epidemic malaria preceding the famine. The epidemic fever in the Gangetic Provinces and in Northern
   and Western India...		 184
Relapsing contagious fever of the same period. In Upper India in the jails of Moradabad, Seharun-
   pore and Allahabad...		 185
Typhus and relapsing fever of the period in Western India... 186
Alliance of the malarious epidemics of Madras with those of Northern India, epidemics of 1810, 1816
   and 1833-34...		 186
Epidemic malaria, typhus and famine of 1833-38... 186
Scurvy preceding the outbreak in Western India... 187
Typhus general over Northern and Western India... 187
Details illustrating the character of the fever of 1836 and 1837 in Upper India... 187
Typhus of the Agra Jail of the spring and hot months of 1838... 187
Epidemic malaria, relapsing fever and famine, 1859-66... 188
The epidemic of malaria of October 1859 in the Valley of the Ganges—Behar Provinces... 188
      "      "      Eastern Bengal... 188
      "      "       Benares, Ghazipore, Mirzapore... 189
      "      "       Saugor and other tracts of Central India... 189
      "      "      Nerbudda Valley... 190
Comparative immunity of the jails in all districts affected... 190
Loss of a Province during an epidemic of malarious fever. Punjab, 1869-70... 190
Epidemic malaria of 1859. Its geographical limit to the west. The jails affected by relapsing fever
   were beyond this limit...		 190
The relapsing fever of 1859-66, probably received its main impetus from the occurrence of famine in
   1860-61. Its geographical distribution...		 191
Meteorology predisposing to the development of diseases of the typhus group in India... 191
In all epidemic periods several distinct varieties of fevers of the typhus group appear... 191
The occurrence of diseases of the typhus class, in connection with the appearance of malarious
   epidemics, suggests the necessity for keeping the fact in view in studying the pandemic spread
   of fevers...		 191
The Aspects in Communities of Fevers of the Typhus Class.
Diseases of the typhus-group may change their type in a community. A continued typhus of the
   spring may reappear as a relapsing fever in the next cold season...		 191
Continued yellow typhus... 191
The Variety in which the force of the poison is thrown on the lungs. Illustrations from the different
   historical typhus periods...		 192
Bubo plague of the Himalayas and Western India... 193
Pneumonic typhus, as seen in British Regiments during the last typhus period... 193
Relapsing fever of a Native Regiment cantoned in the same station, parallel in time with the
   pneumonic fever of the Europeans...		 193
Description of this fever as typical for relapsing typhus... 194
Relapsing typhus as described by Hippocrates... 194
Epidemic dysentery (? typhus) of Her Majesty's 19th Regiment, which occurred at Amritsar in 1863,
   when typhus prevailed...		 195
The only case of contagious dysentery in our European records of the past 20 years. Parallels in former
   times...		 196
Dysenteric typhus, the offspring of relapsing typhus, of the Amritsar Jail, of 1864... 196
Nature of the contagious dysentery and fever of Her Majesty's 96th Regiment, which suffered at Lahore
   in 1852 and 1853...		 196
Dinapore dysentery of 1849-50... 197
Enteric typhus (?), in which the lower portion of the small intestine is alone involved... 197
The specific character and insidious nature of relapsing contagious fever; the method of its introduction
   into jails illustrated. Allyghur, Agra and Umballa jails...		 197
The germ of an outbreak introduced months before, is apt to be overlooked in consequence of the
   temporary decay of the typhus poison...		 199
Influence of season on the manifestation of contagious fevers. The contagious fevers of India run
   parallel in season with those of Egypt...		 199
Typhus in vessels leaving Calcutta during typhus periods. Typhus of Reunion... 200
The natural alliances of typhus. The importance of the study of these alliances... 200
The mortality following the introduction of relapsing fever into jails, shown in the results of 51 out-
   breaks; and the seasons of its commencement, culmination and decay illustrated...		 202
Contagious fever is almost invariably present among the free community before it appears in jails... 205
Why precautions and sanitary measures have failed to cut short these jail outbreaks... 205
TABULAR STATEMENTS CONTAINED IN SECTION III.
Deaths and Death-rates of Administrations. Comparative Statement in two nine-year periods, and for
   each of the 18 years from 1859 to 1876...		 156