Medical reports selected by the Medical Board from the records of their office and published under the sanction of government.

  • Madras (India : State). Medical Board.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Medical reports selected by the Medical Board from the records of their office and published under the sanction of government. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    curative measures to be different during the periods of acces- sion, virulence, and decline; they show that: with] regi- ments marching even the severest epidemics have not, on the average, continued longer ^tlian 24 days, and this com- bined with the knowledge of its three stages will enable*us to regulate our measures of prevention. When examining the returns from bodies of troops in the same or neighbouring cantonments, the attention is almost immediately arrested by observing the difference in the ratio of admissions from cholera in places closely adjoining each other. It will be observed, for instance, in the following table, that the europeans stationed in Fort St. George, from 1S29 to 1838, had 28’03 per 1,000 of their strength admitted from cholera, while the europeans at Poonamallee, 13 miles distant, had only 4*36 per 1,000 of their strength admitted during the same period. A similar difference is observable in the returns from the europeans at St. Thomas’s Mount, a station 10 miles distant from Fort St. George, the european horse artillery there having had 13*36 per 1,000 admitted from cholera in the 10 years from 1829 to 1838, while the european foot artillery, a few hundred yards off, had only 2*5 per 1,000 admitted during the same period ; and these instances are so numer- ous, that they may be arranged in the following tabular form.