ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses individual outlier epidemics (those that do not conform to the rain-price epidemic model) in the context of narrative accounts of local conditions. Assessment of the extent to which outlier epidemics undermine, or alternatively lend support to, the hypothesis of acute hunger in explaining annual malaria mortality. It also examines the 1881 urban malaria epidemic in Amritsar town, and its relationship to endemic starvation.
