ABSTRACT
By employing district-level data and regression analysis, this chapter confirms Christophers’s 1911 conclusions regarding ‘scarcity’ and malaria mortality. District-level analysis additionally reveals major regional differences in how economic stress is expressed in foodgrain price data, differences obscured in Christophers’s original province-level analysis. The regression is repeated for the subsequent period, 1909–1940, and results compared: rain remains a strong predictor of annual malaria mortality, though the level being predicted is greatly reduced. Foodgrain price data no longer significantly predict malaria death rate.
