Notes on the epidemic cholera / [Richard Hartley Kennedy].

  • Richard Hartley Kennedy
Date:
1827
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Credit: Notes on the epidemic cholera / [Richard Hartley Kennedy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    open spot of as healthy ground as any in the neigh- bourhood, within the lines of a populous canton- ment, and only a mile distant from one of the larg- est cities in India, seemed devoted alone, to the pestilence that walked in darkness,and the destruc- tion that wasted at noon-day, without any assign- able cause, but that the seeds of the disease might have been sown in their constitution, during the month of October in Surat. Finally, the pestilence ceased as inexplicably as it had commenced, after having in less than three weeks nearly decimated the battalion. I was travelling in April 1820, and by an error in my original plan, had crossed the country in two different directions. This, although it gave me the inconvenience of near ninetv miles of road in- stead of fifty, enables me to say, that I think if the Epidemic had then been prevailing in the Purgun- nah, I should have heard of it. No application, however, on account of Cholera was made to me by the villagers as I went along, or in any of the places where 1 halted for the night. But when X reached Broach on the Nurbudda, I found the disease raging there most destructively. Mr.West, the Garrison Surgeon, assured me that the casual- ties were not less than twenty daily, the popula- tion of Broach being below 40,000. I was so situ- ated that, independent of the time 1 had already lost, 1 had it not in my power to prolong my stay to observe the progress of the disorder: a circum-
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