The soil in its relation to disease : a report of observations / by T. R. Lewis, and D. D. Cunningham.
- Timothy Richards Lewis
- Date:
- 1875
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The soil in its relation to disease : a report of observations / by T. R. Lewis, and D. D. Cunningham. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![Monthly Means of Soil-Temperature, Water-level, See., from February 1872 to August 1874— Table FIT. Month. Mean Maximum Tkmpebatube op Soil in Calcutta. Rain-fall in Average Tem- Distance of water-level from surface in feet. [At Alipore.] 3 feet from surface. 6 feet from surface. Calcutta. perature [open air]. February 1872. 70°7'Fahr. 7-lo0’Fahr. 2’82 inches. 72°9'Fahr 13'8 M arch • . • 75°2' 75°6' 021 „ 83 °1' 14'2 April 82° 1' 79°1' 1-83 „ 85°9' 14' 4 May ... 84°3' 81°2' 1-99 „ 87°0' 14' 7 June 85°3' 83 3' 9-45 „ 85°4' 14 7 July 82V 83°iy 5 55 ,, 83°3' 13'9 August 82V 82°5' 11-52 „ 83°1' 12'7 September ... 82V 82°0' 8-42 „ 83°2' 107 October 88° 8' 81°5' 893 „ 81°6‘ 10'7 November 75°7' 77°8' 0-02 „ 76V 11'2 December 72°3' 7 5°4' 0-09 „ 70°3' 13 0 January 1873. 68°0' 72°4' 68°3' 13'7 February 70 V 72°5' 74°5' 14 4 M arch • •• 75° 8' 76° 1' 1 18 „ 80°3' 147 April 81°8' 79°4' F84 „ 84° 4' 14'9 May 8:l°4' 80°5' 378 „ 87°0' 15'0 J one 84°8' 82°1' 4 30 „ 88°2' 15'0 July 83°3' 82°3' 14’76 „ 83V 147 August 82V 81°2' 1023 „ 83V 11'9 September ... 82 °3' 81°4' 5-82 „ 84°5' 10'2 October . ,, 80° I' 8i.°7' 2 40 „ 82° 1' ll'o November ... 76°2' 78°4' 014 „ 76V 12'9 December ... ... ... 72V 75° o' 0-82 „ 70°2' 14'0 January 1874. 68°8' 72°8' 0-94 „ 66V 147 February 70°4' 73°0' 377 „ 72°5' 14'10 March 74°3' 74° 6' 194 „ 78°6' 15'0 April ... 80°7' 78°1' 1-20 „ 85°4' 15'0 May • •• 83°4' 8lV 1-16 „ 87 °4' 15'2 June ... •.. 82°4' 81°7' 6-89 „ 83°9' 15'2 July • •• 81°5' 81°7' 8-89 „ 84°2' 15'2 August ... 81°0* 81V 10-19 „ 83° 1' 15'1 (7.)—General Conclusions regarding the Observations. It may appear to many that the result of all these observatins on conditions of soil is not commensurate with the time and labour expended in obtaining it. In so far as arriving at any definite determination of the influence of soil-condi- tions on health is concerned, the results as they stand at present are, no doubt, not so conclusive as might be desired. It is only on prolonged and continuous observations in various localities that definite conclusions can be based. Even as it is, however, the determination of the coincidence of prevalence Definite results regarding the re- of cholera in Calcutta with the existence of certain disease<o^niy°at^inabie<^yme^aiwof marked characteristics in the conditions of the soil prolonged observation. js 0f great importance. It has, no doubt, been known for a long time that the ordinary course of cholera in Calcutta was simi- lar to that shown in this Report, and that the prevalence of the disease was related to local conditions of season; but in regard to this phenomenon, attention has hitherto been almost entirely directed to the conditions of atmospheric meteorology, and this is almost the first attempt which has been made to ascertain whether any definite relations exist between the prevalence of the disease and special telluric phenomena. We believe that the present observations, although confined to a very limited period, may serve a good purpose in attracting attention in this country to the importance of the subject and to the desirability of obtaining data The observations in Calcutta may ie_,aidm0 it. *We ha\e, m so far as our own w rk aociniay^er've'attract^rte^tion is concerned, by their means obtained standards of to the subject. comparison which will be of very great value in examining the conditions of soil present in other localities during the pre-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24906621_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
