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French Guiana and New Caledonia had similar French Imperial Prison systems with consistent mortality records, but French Guiana had malaria whereas New Caledonia did not, enabling rough estimates of malaria-associated mortality by comparing death rates in these otherwise similar colonies. A statistical model developed from the prison colonies estimated that malaria-associated mortality was equal to or greater than the number of deaths directly attributed to malaria in Panama consistent with the contemporaneous civilian records in Panama City. Malaria mortality in French Panama Canal workers was highly correlated (<jats:italic>R<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup><\/jats:italic> = 0.73) with deaths because of all other causes in the late 19th century. 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