On the geographical distribution of some tropical diseases and their relation to physical phenomena / by R.W. Felkin.

  • Robert Felkin
Date:
1889
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Credit: On the geographical distribution of some tropical diseases and their relation to physical phenomena / by R.W. Felkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    there are small and isolated areas where malaria is endemic on the marshy hanks of the rivers or lakes, e.g., the valleys near the Neckar in the Black Forest. The more extensive malarial regions are on the hanks of the Ehine, in lower Alsace, in the Palatinate, in the Rheingau, and in the low grounds of the Danube, and its side valleys in Wurtemburg and Bavaria. In central Germany it is only endemic in a few small districts. In North Germany it is found in the basins of the Vistula, Oder, Elbe, Weser, and Rhine. Hoistein and Schleswig (west coast districts), the coast belt west of the Elbe, the moorlands of Hanover and Oldenburg, the low grounds of Westphalia, and the plains of Rhenish Prussia are also infected. In tbe Netherlands malaria is mostly found in the provinces of Gronland, Friesland, and Zealand, on the coast belt of the provinces of north and south Holland, and in the provinces of Drenthe Overyssel. Belgium, West Flanders, East Flanders, and Antwerp are affected. The disease also occurs in Laaland and Falster, on the Hvalben islands, and in the neighbourhood of Fredericstadt. In Sweden it is endemic at three principal points—around Lakes Malei and Werner, on the east coast of Torhamn, and at the mouth of several coast streams, such as the Angermanna-elf, the Dal-elf, and Gotta-elf. In Britain, the Riding of Yorkshire, the Fen district, Essex and Kent, the banks of the Thames in Surrey, and the south marsh of Somersetshire, are slightly infected by malaria. In the western hemisphere, endemic malarial fever of the severest type has its principal Beats in the West Indies, on the Mexican < iulf coast, and in Brazil, but considerable regions of fever, though of a less intense kind, are met with in the northern parts of the Pacific coast of South America, and in the southern, central, and prairie States of the Union. All the Weal Indian Islands are affected, save Antigua, St Vincent, and Barbadoee, the Bahamas and tin-- JVniiuda group, in which islands it is rarely seen. In South America the vrorel centre of malaria is the eaai coast, including the ports of Carthagena, Maracaybo, and Puerto Cabello, and the country of Guiana. Another extensive ana coven the whole of the north of Brazil as far as Rio <\r Janeiro, the banks of the Amazon, Bio Madeira, Maranhao, Paranahyba, San Francisco, Parana, Rio Doce, and their tributaries] also the island of Santa
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