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Published in final edited form as: J Econ Hist. 2007 Dec;67(4):1001–1035. doi: 10.1017/S0022050707000472

APPENDIX TABLE 4.

INCIDENCE RATE OF FEVERS BY TYPE, SEASON, AND YEAR

	1829–1838
Type of Fever	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	All	1871	1872	1873	1874
Intermittent	0.0439	0.0728	0.1407	0.0855	0.3428
Remittent	0.0050	0.0159	0.0537	0.0193	0.0939	0.0335	0.0235	0.0227	0.0256
Typhus	0.0005	0.0009	0.0011	0.0015	0.0041
Typhoid						0.0043	0.0037	0.0040	0.0031
Typho-malaria						0.0016	0.0013	0.0028	0.0011

Notes: As the major types of fevers, the 1829–1838 fort sickness reports provide quarterly incidences of intermittent, remittent, and typhus fevers. The 1871–1874 reports provide annual incidences of intermittent, remittent, typhoid, and typho-malarial fevers.