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 416 CURREN NOES was raging in the United Provinces and the Pnisb during November and then spread out to the North. West Frontier and Afghanistan and over the Him.ay into Tibet. The mortality was unprecedented espey in the rural districts, some villages losing from 50 per cent of their inhabitants whilst others suffered much more lightly. The disease appeared to have two forms, & virulent and mild form, and & very high percentre of deaths from pneumonia occurred in families or rillages &ttcked by the virulent form. It may be estimated that throughout India eight to ten million persons succum to infiuenz& during the last few. months of 1918. The first Conference called by the Indian Economic Association was held in Bombay on December 80th and 31st, and January 1st last and it was an unqualified success. The meetings of the Conference were held in the Senate Hall of the University of Bombay and opened with an address of welcome from Professor Percy Ans;tev, who in the capacity of Honorary Local Secretary 1 made &ll arrangements for the Conference. Profes0r Anstey presided over &11 meetings of the Conference for the reading and discussion of papers, which were held on the morning and afternoon of the firs and third days and on the morning only of the second day. On the a.r. noon of the second day & very important business meeting was held & which the draft constitution of the Indiz Economic Association, which had been prepared by Professors Gilbert Slater and (oy&jee, was submitted for discussion and adopted. Another business meeting w held the next day at which the following were &ppoinl officers: Gh&irm&n of the (ommitee--Professor P. Anstey; Honorary I.oc&l Secretary for Madras Gonferenee-- Dr. Gilbert Slater; Hon. Tre&surer---Prof. H. Stanley .levons; Hon. (eneral Secretary---Prof. J. C. C, oy&jee.