The Medical Research Couneit fla published a pamphlet by Sir Leonatd Rogers on the effect of the climate of India on smallpox, in. which Sit Leonard shows that the disease generally is more prevalent in dry seasons or in low rainfall areas. The pamphlet draws the conclusion that cly watching the absolute humidity: in India, and possibly other continental countries, at a season when normally the" humidity averages about 0,700 to 0.800, about four-fifths of the ~sinallpox—epidemics could be foreseen from two to three, months ahead of time, This would enable the public health authorities to issue warnings and to take the necessary steps to. minimise ap-Pronching outbreaks—Reater,
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