A history of Asiatic cholera / by C. MacNamara.

Date:
1876
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Credit: A history of Asiatic cholera / by C. MacNamara. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    every station throughout the Madras Presidency,* but the cases were by no means so numerous or severe as in 1820. The Nerbudda field force again suffered severely from cholera, the disease evidently still retaining much of its former energy in the western part of the peninsula; for not only do we hear of it at Mhow and along the valley of the Nerbudda, but also in Bombay, where, from / the 23rd to the 28th of May, 235 deaths occurred from cholera, and, as usual in this part of India, the disease ‘•'increased in severity during August and September.” f From the Proceedings of the Medical Board we learn that the year 1822 was marked by almost absolute rest as regards cholera j in fact, the great epidemic which had arisen in 1817, well nigh covering India within the three succeeding years, had now subsided.]; A fair criterion of the comparative death-rates from cholera for the years 1818 and 1822, is supplied by the Returns of the Madras Army. In 1818 this force amounted to 69,416 men, and among these 896 casualties occurred from cholera; but in 1822, the force having increased to 85,517 men, only 369 deaths are recorded from this disease. In examining these Returns, we are struck with the marked difference which exists between the death-rate from cholera among our European and Native troops in India, amounting to 21 per 1000 of the former, and to 10 per 1000 of the latter. Throughout the early months of the year 1823 cholera * Madras Cholera Report. t Calcutta Journal for 1821. + Scott’s Madras Report, p. xiii.
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