INDIA'S MILLIONS.
HOW DISEASE IS FOUGHT. INTERESTING SPEECH BY LORD , KITCHENER. DIFFICULTIES TO BE MET. By Telegraph—Presß Association—Copyright. ""•■'.' (Rec.:\Ootober 4,- 8'.50 p.m.) - ',' : London, October 4. .Lord- Kitchoneri.'.'in .addressing the Medical-School at Middlesex Hospital, paid a tribute .to',;tho work of 'the Medical Corps-.in India. Enteric fever, he said, was' yielding to:improved' sanitation and inoculation, which was 'now almost universal;- ' ■ Enteric would, in fact, shortly'join: cholera in total banishment from, the." barracks. :■ "■■ During the last ..decade the ratio of' the constantly -sick- invalided and .the deaths had/been reduced by fifty .per oentum.-vV ,; \. ':"■'■'■-"■-' '■■'■/' : '-\ :.' :;• Malari'a still- baffled : i their - efforts, however, and',the- methods which' were successful-in Khartoum -were impossible in India, where'.native sanitation and water supply' were outside British control. I ,'; •,<: - ■'.•'' "■'.': '-.'•'■'. '':-■'/■ ■/ : ' ■■-_ There 'were -300,000,000 Indians' mostly living in-unsanitary, and over-crowded - cities,. and: the; difficulty of dealing with them lay;'in evolving methods 'which did • not confliot. with the .traditions of ages. '■ :. ;,' ■:'■'% ;.- ■■•'.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 939, 5 October 1910, Page 7
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146INDIA'S MILLIONS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 939, 5 October 1910, Page 7
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