Thus also with the forthcoming inquiries concerning malarial fever, which is spreading all over the country.
Every Indian knows that, like the plague, this form of fever is due to the poverty and consequent physical weakness of the people.

It is, however, to the mosquito that the authorities went for the causes of the disease, just as to the rats for the causes of plague.

Different medicines and instruments were invented for extirpating the insect, doctors were also employed, and rewards paid for the writing of books.

In this way crores of rupees went into the pockets of English shopkeepers and others.

A trial is now being given to quinine, and lakhs-worth sold to Indians, English quinine manufacturers being thus enriched.