Indian Medical Research Memoir Supplementary Series to the Indian Journal of Medical Research October 1924

This was due to the severe economic stress resulting from the war and the consequent general lowering of vitality of the people and therefore of the resistance to infection ; and to the widespread prevalence of influenza. [...] This was taken as an indication of the prevalence of the parasite both in the Presidency Town and the other parts of the Presidency. [...] The people are the best educated in the district of Tanjore which-- excluding the exceptional cases of Madras and the Nilgiris—comes first14 Ankylostomiasis Inquiry in MadraS in the Presidency in the literacyuf its total population. [...] The greatest part of the maleportion of the population follow the. time-honoured custom of defecating on any plot of open ground or in some water course unniin.dful of surroundings while women and small children retire to the backyard or some small enclosure specially laid apart ; and the process of cleaning is left to the sun the wind the rain the fowls the pigs and such a body of sweepers [...] the house refuse accumulates as a privy for the women and the children all the year round and fOr all the members of the family during the rainy season.