tirely, the central and southern parts in which Deobund and Nanoutah are located, suffered by far the most seriously. Such a mortality as that of Deobund is startling, especially when we consider that 102*93 of per mille the inhabitants were carried off by fever within five months, August to December. There are no grounds for imagining that the inhabitants of Deobund town were more exposed to tiie prevailing epidemic than those of the country immediately around, yet the fever death-rate of the former 123-27 per mille exceeded that of the latter, 69"9 per mille by 63-37 per mille being almost double, a difference which mere errors in registration, will, in no ways, account for. The conclusion, thereREMARKS ON FEVER MORTALITY AT DEOBUND IN 1884. fore, is but natural, that there must have beeu some exceptional local causes at work in DeoBy Brigade-Surgeon A. GARDEN, M.D. bund, to bring about such a calamity, which it During the autumn of 1884 a large portion may be well worth while inquiring into. of Northern India was visited by one of those The ratios in the various statements in this violent outbreaks of fever, which occur from are based on the census returns of 1881, paper at intervals by no means regular,* time to time which give the population of Deobund as 22,116. and during and after which the mortality! is so The fluctuations in population have been consigreat as to be remarkable, even in parts which derable. In 1853, it was 18,638, and in 1863, are notoriously fever-stricken. After the severe fever outbreaks of Lying well within the affected area the dis- 22,174. 1869 and 1870, it fell to 19,168 in 1872, to rise trict of Saharanpur suffered severely as a whole, to 22,116 in 1881 ; though one severe not only in the numbers attacked, for but few again of fever had occurred in the intervenescaped, but in the mortality which reached epidemic in 1879. Apparently there was no period ing the high rate of 57 per mille. (Fever 48 per increase between 1881 and 1884, as the great total deaths during the year haviu O 4) O

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