> I'm looking at the abnormally
> high mortality levels in Fenland England during the nineteenth century -
> and one possibility is that it has something to do with malaria levels in
> that area particularly in the earlier part of the century.
I read somewhere, but no longer have the reference, than Cambridge was an
unpopular posting with Roman soldiers because of ill health
and malaria from the fens.
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