A Report on the Cholera of 1866-68, and Its Relations to the Cholera of Previous Epidemics (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...complete immunity from the disease. It commenced about the 15th June and continued until September. Cholera is stated to appear here generally about the end of March or in April; the recent attack was therefore at an unusual season. Saugor.--" Cholera made its appearance among the people soon after the first fall of rain, from the 6th to the 9th June, and lasted during the monsoon, gradually disappearing towards the end of August." Mundla.--" Cholera appeared in the city of Mundla in May last, and continued until the end of July." If this district was crossed by epidemic cholera in 1859, when our eastern epidemic province was covered, our returns give no clue to the invasion. It may have occurred nevertheless, for it is remarkable to note the great outbreak in Bombay city coincident with the invasion of the Grangetic Provinces. This was the cholera that reached Persia in the beginning of November, which is thus noticed in the report of the Constantinople Conference (p. 318): --" Towards the termination of the year 1860 cholera came into the country with the Persian troops returning from Turkistan, and in its rapid march it invaded Turkey." I need not trace again this epidemic in the successive stages of its career up to its death in November 1862. I have already shown that this epidemic and its predecessor of 1856-58, were strictly moulded upon the type of the cholera of 1817-20, and were strictly parallel one with the other. The epidemic of 1863-65 claims greater attention, as having illustrated to us in our time 10. Epidemic of 1863-65 ne mehod and course of invasion from the Bay of Bengal to Eastern Africa. We can trace it back to the week of its exit from the endemic province. The Jail Table for 1863 tells the whole story of...