Weather, health, and forests : a report on the inequalities of the mortality from malarial fever and other diseases, in Mauritius, considered in relation to the inequalities of temperature, humidity, and rainfall ; on a possible periodicity of mortality related to the eleven-year periodicity of solar activity ; and on the climatic and other effects of forests / Prepared for the Sanitary Commission of Mauritius appointed by Proclamation No. 50 of 1879. By Charles Meldrum, L.L.D., F.R.S.

  • Meldrum, Charles, 1821-1901.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Weather, health, and forests : a report on the inequalities of the mortality from malarial fever and other diseases, in Mauritius, considered in relation to the inequalities of temperature, humidity, and rainfall ; on a possible periodicity of mortality related to the eleven-year periodicity of solar activity ; and on the climatic and other effects of forests / Prepared for the Sanitary Commission of Mauritius appointed by Proclamation No. 50 of 1879. By Charles Meldrum, L.L.D., F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDICES. Page. Table. 92. Annual Deaths from Fever, from all Causes, &c., in each District, from 1871 to 1879 . ii & III I 93. Monthly Deaths from Fever, from all Causes, &c., in each District, from 1871 to 1879. iv to XXI II to 94. Mean Monthly Deaths from Fever, from all Causes, &c., in each Dis¬ trict, for the poriod 1871—79 XXII & XXIII XI 95. Mean Annual Variation of Deaths from Fever in each District for the period 1871-79 XXIV XII 96. Monthly Deaths from Fever, from all Causes, &c., for the whole Is¬ land, in each of the years 1871-79. XXV & XXVI XIII 97. Annual Variation of Deaths from Fever, for the whole Island, in each year from 1871 to 1879 XXVII XIV 98. Mean Monthly Temperature at the Observatory and at Beau Sejour in each of the years 1871-79 XXVIII & XXIX XV 99. Monthly Rainfall at the Observatory and at Beau Sejour in each of the years 1871-79 XXX & XXXI XVI 100. Mean Monthly Relative Humidity at the Observatory in each of the years 1871-79, and at Beau Sejour in each of the years 1873-79 XXXII & XXXIII XVII 101. Monthly Rainfall at 14 stations in each of the years 1871-79 XXXIV to XI. XVIII to 102. Mean Monthly Rainfall of 7 Dis¬ tricts in each of the years 1871 -79. XLI XXII 103. Annual Variation of the Rainfall of 7 Districts in each of the years 1871-79 . xx.ii xxm 104. Deaths from Dysentery, Diarrhoea, Consumption, and other Pulmo¬ nary Diseases, in each month of the years 1871-79... XLII to XLVI XXIV to XXVII