The Peshawar Fever

Such in brief are the most important conditions of locality "which at Peshawar favour the production of marsh fever. Let us now glance at the conditions of life of those dwelling "Within its influences, and the effects it produces upon them. In this view the population consists of two great classes, viz., an urban, including the inhabitants of the largest villages, and a rural. Though the difference in the conditions of life obtaining amongst these two classes is one more of degree than of kind, f?ri taking number against number, both live in equally bad and unventilated dwellings, are equally crowded in their communities, are equally filthy in their surroundings, are equally unprotected against sudden changes of temperature, are equally 1gnorant of sanitation, and are equally heedless of the impurities in their food and drink,?still the distinction is necessary because the two classes exhibit the effects of the fever poison ln different degrees, and to some extent under different forms.