南京大虐殺・従軍慰安婦強制連行の嘘

●DEATHS BY SICKNESSより、農村調査の病死について述べた部分です。
It is also possible that some deaths by sickness were confused with the killed, though the original questions presented the two as alternatives; and the margin of this confusion, as tested by comparison with the normal death rate, could not have been large enough to affect in noticeable degree the number reported as killed.
　 病死を戦死と報告した事例は無視しうるほど少数であると結論付けています。
　 その理由が
The 100 days occurred in a healthy season with unusually mild and fair weather, after two successive years of big harvests. It is plain that there was no epidemic or extraordinary disease.
　 これです。ところがEXTENT OF LAST FALL'S PLANTINGには
Moreover, the weather was unusually dry, another cause of delay which pushed some farmers along till early December, when the full calamity came and field work was impossible.
の記述、DESTRUCTION OF CROPSには
Remarkably dry weather prevailed until March; and there was also minor injury not to be classed as destruction, along with excess of weeds.
の記述があります。
　 つまり、この時期は異常に乾燥した気候が続いていたと述べられています。確かに、言い換えればunusually mild and fair weatherでしょうけど、農業用水にも事欠く状態で戦場となった地域の衛生が保たれるものでしょうか？ 　 直接戦場になっていなかったとしても、下水の整備されていない地域の事なのです。
　 異常な少雨によって疫病が発生し難かったというロジックには、不自然な感を禁じえません。