| Description Of Item | Page of a journal article on the burdwan fever (also known as ‘the malarial epidemic in Bengal’). A possible theory given is that the fever owed its origins to the inadequacy of the supply of food to the poor population of the districts. Colonel [Thomas Wolseley] Haig theory on the disease’s origins is that ‘the germ…is always present in the country, but it is the failing stamina of the population that calls it into activity’. This journal article is from the collection of Thomas Laycock. |