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cord-027757-zb4wxt85	Hardiman, David	The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 and the Adivasis of Western India	2012-03-09		.txt	text/plain	10215	515	65	17 In her study of the epidemic in Bombay Presidency, Ramanna describes the way that the disease spread rapidly through western India in 1918, and the measures adopted by colonial medical officials to try to contain it-largely without success. Before examining the epidemic in this adivasi region, I shall say something about the nature of the epidemic, how it was understood and treated at the time, and look briefly at a well-documented case in which indigenous people were severely hit by the pandemic-that of the Inuit in Alaska-to help to draw out some lessons about the response to the crisis more widely. 37 The particularly high mortality rates from influenza suffered by indigenous and aboriginal peoples throughout the world in 1918 has been brought out in a number of studies. 59 Because their health was generally poor, the South Gujarat adivasis suffered particularly badly in epidemics.	./cache/cord-027757-zb4wxt85.txt	./txt/cord-027757-zb4wxt85.txt