Medical, geographical, and agricultural report of a committee appointed by the Madras Government to inquire into the causes of the epidemic fever which prevailed in the provinces of Coimbatore, Madura, Dindigul, & Tinnivelly, during the years 1809, 1810, and 1811, of which W. Ainslie was president.

  • Madras (Presidency) Medical Committee to Inquire into the Causes of the Epidemic Fever.
Date:
1816
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Credit: Medical, geographical, and agricultural report of a committee appointed by the Madras Government to inquire into the causes of the epidemic fever which prevailed in the provinces of Coimbatore, Madura, Dindigul, & Tinnivelly, during the years 1809, 1810, and 1811, of which W. Ainslie was president. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Those lands farthest from the hills in this district are invariably higher, and dryer, than others tying near their base ; and many large morasses are to be found, particularly in the talook of Toddycomboo. The general plain of the country is con- siderably lower than that of Coimbatore, though higher than those of Madura and Tinnivelly, and is about four hundred feet above the level of the ocean. The Madura district is more open than that which we have just noticed; as it lies, in some measure, between the high Din- digul mountains and the sea, and has east of its meridian only the insulated hills of Towerincourchie and Cottampetty1, which approach it within about sixteen miles, in a N. e. direction. We have observed, both (]) This particularly applies to such situations as lie near the base of that projection of lower hills (before noticed) which advance from the Dindigul mass till within fourteen miles of Madura; for instance, the divisions Maudacolum and Aunyoor.