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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II.—Natural Science 1900

1901

The dotted lines within the municipal areas enclose the Wards or areas separately examined and the largo figures within them indicate the spleen pecentage while the figures enclosed in a circle are those of the distance of the ground water-level below the surface in feet and inches the upper figures being the distance in the dry cold weather taken in the month of February while the lower on [...] 41.0 A glance at the above table or at the shaded map will show that the places situated on the bank of the Hooghly river have a much lower spleen percentage than those further to the east even when the latter are but two miles from the river as in the case of the last five in the right-hand colainn of the table with the exception of part. [...] This having been ascertained the question arose whether the lower rate on the banks of the Hooghly was to be regarded as the normal rate and the higher figures of the inner tract as being due to water-logging or other abnormal conditions or whether the latter innst be taken as the usual state of affairs in this part of Lower Bengal and the banks of the Hooghly as being exceptionally healthy. [...] lived around the western end of the Bolgachia road just to the east of the railway and consequently close to the Western Ward of Cossipore and the spleen-rate among them was only 13.7 by far the lowest rate of any place to the east of the railway. [...] It is divided into four Wards the first three of which are between the river and the Grand Trunk Road and the fourth lies to the east of the former being mostly between the Grand Trunk Road and the railway and consequently is dependant for its water-supply on tanks while the first three get theirs mainly from the river although Ward I. which is the most southernly bordeting on Cossipore o
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Pages
57
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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457-476 The Natural History Secretary view
XVIII.—I. Further Research on Mercurous Nitrite and its Derivatives. II. On Mercurous Iodide and a New Method of its Preparation.—by P. C. Ray D.Sc
476-488 The Natural History Secretary view
XIX.—Description of a New Himalayan Genus of Orobanchaceæ.—by J. S. Gamble M.A. F.R.S. and D. Prain
488-490 The Natural History Secretary view
Index
491-511 The Natural History Secretary view

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