Report on the epidemic cholera as it has appeared in the territories subject to the Presidency of Fort St George / drawn up by order of government, under the superintendence of the Medical Board, by William Scot; abridged from the original report printed at Madras in 1824, with introductory remarks, by the author.

Date:
1849
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Credit: Report on the epidemic cholera as it has appeared in the territories subject to the Presidency of Fort St George / drawn up by order of government, under the superintendence of the Medical Board, by William Scot; abridged from the original report printed at Madras in 1824, with introductory remarks, by the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    succeeding day, t^YO cases of cholera occurred. On the 22d they descended the Gliauts, and the disease gradually increased. The admissions ^vere most numerous from the 27th to the 31st of May, and the disease had ceased by the 5th of June, on which day the regiment marched into Fort St George: of 871 men, 70 were attacked with cho- lera, of whom 20 died. The native camp-followers suffered comparatively little. This regiment having afterwards moved into camp near Madras, about the middle of July, for the purpose of volunteering into other corps, they, con- trary to the experience of the 34th regiment, entirely escaped cholera on that occasion. His majesty’s 41st regiment arrived in two divisions from England on the Gth and 15th of Jul}% and marched into Fort St George. The men of the first division were almost immediately attacked with cholera; those of the second division having landed during its prevalence, several of them were taken ill in the course of the morning of their landing; of 714 men, 159 suffered an attack of the disease, of whom 32 died. The disease had almost entirely ceased by the end of the month. It has been stated that the 54th regiment landed from the ships William Fairlie and Thomas Coutts, on the 10th of May. In the former ship, while at anchor in the roads, cholera made its appearance on or about the 18th of May: they had 05 cases, and of these 12 proved fatal. The dis- ease did not appear in the Coutts till a fortnight afterwards: they had only 23 cases, of which 6 were fatal. Several circumstances connected with the appearance of the disease on board these ships deserve to be noticed. No case of cholera occurred in either ship while out at sea. The Fair- lie lay at anchor so far to the southward, as to be directly to keivard of the fort, and this was during the prevalence of tlie strong soutli-west winds: the disease was at that ])criod established in the 54tli regiment, in garrison there. Tlie men who worked upon deck, and those wdio sle])t on