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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    A very considerable number of small parties of European troops have been put in motion from one station to another during the year 1822; these, although generally escaping any formidable attacks of cholera, have nevertheless ex- hibited a greater proportional number of sporadic cases of the disease than parties of native troops who have been inarching nearly by the same routes, and at the same seasons of the year. Some of these European detachments have suffered pretty severely. In one which proceeded from Poonamallee to Trichinopoly in January, the disease appeared at Olundurpett: they had 11 cases, of which 7 terminated fatally; another, proceeding from Poonamallee to Secunderabad, had 24 cases, of which 5 terminated un- favourably. This detachment moved from Poonamallee on the 11th April, and on the following day passed through the camp of a detachment of artillery in which cholera had prevailed for some time; on the l4th the disease appeared, but it continued for two or three days only. In the artil- lery detachment, on the contrary, which had come from Nagpoor, it had hung about them ever since they left the Kistnah, occasionally attacking both Europeans and natives: the disease was not known in the villages on the route, nor in the 1st battalion 9th regiment, native infantry, which was marching the same way, and frequently coming in con- tact with the artillery. It has already been observed that the native troops, which have been under movement in the course of this year, have enjoyed an almost total exem])tion from cholera. The instances shall now be briefly noticed in order to com- plete this narrative. The 3d regiment, light cavalry, the 1st battalion, 4th regiment, native infantry, and the 2d battalion 20th regi- ment, native infantry, moved from Nagpoor about the middle of January, and arrived at Secunderabad towards the end of February, the cavalry by the route of Passim and Nandair, the infantry by Neermull, and continued free