Health in India for British Women, and on the Prevention of Disease in Tropical Climates (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. ON THE COLONIZATION OF INDIA, AND ON INDIAN SANITATION. In the previous chapters I have sketched the main characteristics of the climate of India. I have shown its physiological and morbid action on the British race--that its rate of sickness and of mortality is much higher than in England--that the reproductive power of our countrywomen suffers diminution, and that their children must return to England, or degenerate; so I am prepared to answer a question that has often been asked: Can the Anglo-Saxon race colonize India? It is well to know on what terms we hold India, now that we have Russia on our frontier; and that by giving the natives an European education we are steadily increasing their power to throw off our yoke. There are two ways of colonizing. The first is by "swarming," as the bees do, and as we have successfully done, to some well-chosen isothermal region, such as North America and Australia. The second is by intermarriage with aboriginals of a country, as did the Saxons, Danes, and Normans with us, and the Spaniards with several South American races. Colonization by "Swarming."--In India we have found a tropical climate, and all past experience shows that our race, if kept pure from other blood, would die out with the third or fourth generation. Nevertheless, there are some who believe that we might colonize most parts of India, while others think it would be only possible to do so in certain favourable spots. My readers will doubtless feel disposed to adopt the opinion of a very high authority, Sir Bartle Frere, who graciously wrote to me in the following terms: --" As regards colonization by swarming, your statements are most true with respect to most stations in the plains; but there are vast tracts of...