Physical and medical climate and meteorology of the west coast of Africa |
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... vegetable matter mingling with the drinking water , as well as water impregnated with animal life and fæcal matter , lead to the most fatal forms of diarrhoea and dysentery . At Sierra Leone dysentery is an occasional disease and seldom ...
... vegetable matter mingling with the drinking water , as well as water impregnated with animal life and fæcal matter , lead to the most fatal forms of diarrhoea and dysentery . At Sierra Leone dysentery is an occasional disease and seldom ...
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... vegetable matter receives moisture and begins to putrefy , and consequently forms the source of unhealthy exhalations . The wind from E. and N.E. blows from the Continent through an extensive track of these unhealthy emanations ...
... vegetable matter receives moisture and begins to putrefy , and consequently forms the source of unhealthy exhalations . The wind from E. and N.E. blows from the Continent through an extensive track of these unhealthy emanations ...
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... vegetable and animal matter which it receives in its course , and which is held in solution by them ; and this water , when drunk by individuals predisposed to bowel complaints , at once produces dysentery and diarrhoea . These diseases ...
... vegetable and animal matter which it receives in its course , and which is held in solution by them ; and this water , when drunk by individuals predisposed to bowel complaints , at once produces dysentery and diarrhoea . These diseases ...
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... vegetable and animal remains become decomposed , and form the source of malarious fevers . The lagoons in the Bight of Biafra are the source of the most deadly emanations : the banks are open , flat , and covered with rank vegetation ...
... vegetable and animal remains become decomposed , and form the source of malarious fevers . The lagoons in the Bight of Biafra are the source of the most deadly emanations : the banks are open , flat , and covered with rank vegetation ...
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... vegetable putrescent matter . soils . Ferruginous soils absorb heat rapidly , and give it out also Ferruginons rapidly . Sir Ranald Martin considers them most unhealthy and deadly . From a priori reason I consider that this is not the ...
... vegetable putrescent matter . soils . Ferruginous soils absorb heat rapidly , and give it out also Ferruginons rapidly . Sir Ranald Martin considers them most unhealthy and deadly . From a priori reason I consider that this is not the ...
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A.M. Noon Accra acid afternoon amongst Amount of Cloud April aqueous vapour atmosphere August barometer Bathurst Bight of Benin blows boiling Camaroon Cape Coast carbonic acid Cloudy Days Coast of Africa cold colony commences Daily Dew-Point diarrhoea directions disease dysentery earth effect elevated Evening-2nd Evening-5th Fair-Days falls February feet Freetown Gambia region Gold Coast harmattan harmattan wind healthy heat height Hygrometer inches increased inhabitants interior July June lagoon Lagos land Liberia lightning M'Carthy's Island March matter MAXIMUM mercury MILITARY HOSPITAL month morning mortality mountains native night Noon-1st Noon-2nd Noon-4th OBSERVATIONS.-At 9 OBSERVATIONS.-Morning-1st OBSERVATIONS.-Morning-2nd October ozone Ozonometer produced quantity of ozone quinine rainy season rises RIVER GAMBIA sanitary Saturation sea breeze Senegal September Sierra Leone soil south-west St Mary's stations surface temperature thermometer THERMOMETRICAL OBSERVATIONS thunder tion tornado town tropical climates unhealthy vegetable weather West Coast Western Africa wet bulb Wet-Days whilst yellow fever
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