Cholera epidemics in East Africa. An account of the several diffusions of the disease in that country from 1821 till 1872, with an outline of the geography, ethnography, and trade connections of the regions through which the epidemics passed / By James Christie.

  • Christie, James
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1876
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Credit: Cholera epidemics in East Africa. An account of the several diffusions of the disease in that country from 1821 till 1872, with an outline of the geography, ethnography, and trade connections of the regions through which the epidemics passed / By James Christie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and published by Government, at Calcutta in 1874, under the title of Vital Statistics of the Bengal Presidency. Epidemic Cholera, from 1817 to 1872. The Report, how- ever, is continued till the close of. 1873, for events are noted as having occurred at the close of September of that year. In that part of the Report referred to Dr. Bryden dis- cusses the East African epidemic as follows :—1 The general results of this movement [of cholera] of September and October [in India] are contained in the following letter addressed to the Secretary to Government, in the Home Department, during the absence of the Sanitary Commissioner in England, dated 3rd February, 1870 :— Movement of cholera in the first week of September, and later in the year in countries beyond the limits of Hindostan. Referring to letter from the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India to your Department, No. 394, dated 31st May, 1869, in reply to your No. 174 of the 27th idem, with enclosures from the Secretary of State for India, forwarding, for the consideration of His Excellency the Governor-General in Council, the suggestion that the British Delegate to the Board of Health at Constantinople should be supplied periodically with correct information regarding the state of the public health in India, in antici- pation of the possibility of the introduction of epidemic disease into the Ottoman ports of the Red Sea and thence into Europe, I have the honour now to invite your attention to the contents of a despatch from the Political Agent and Her Majesty's Consul at Zanzibar, dated 25th November last, and transmitted to this Office with Foreign Department docket of 27th January. This despatch announces the appearance of epidemic cholera towards the end of October on the eastern coast of 1 General Aspects of Epidemic C/wtera in 1869 : a Sequel to a Report on the Cholera Oj' 1866-68. Calcutta, 1870, p. 20.