Excerpt from Report on Malaria at Ismailia and Suez Drs. Dampeirou and Pressat furnished us with a complete history of this subject, accompanied with a chart showing the number of cases occurring every month from the commencement of the epidemic. A copy of this chart 13 attached to this report. Malarial fever appeared first at Ismailia in 1 877, when the fresh water canal was enlarged. During that year, according to the chart, over three hundred cases occurred from August to December. N ext year there were about four hundred cases; and the annual sick - rate remained at about this figure until 1885, When, owing possibly to the increase of the town, the fever - rate rose considerably. Since then the worst years recordedare 1886 1891, 1897, and 1901. In 1891, nearly 2 500' cases are recorded; and there were almost as many in 1901. The monthly fluctuations show that the four last months of the year are generally the worst as regards the fever, and the early months the best. The largest monthly rate is that of November, 1891, When four hundred and sixty-nine cases were reported. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.