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Credit: On the communicability of cholera by human intercourse. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![at Pandliavpur, says, in his report, on the Jatra : ' There was uo disease of any kind till the 10th—the chief day of the fair; but on the following morning reports were re- ceived that 3 persons, 2 natives of Karwar and 1 of Nar- sobas-wari, near Miraj, were taken ill; of whom I had died. Medicines were administered to the remaining 2, 1 of whom recovered, and the other died seven honrs after. The number of attacks from cholei-a went on increasing till the 14th, after which it continued to fall as the pilgrims dis- appeared.' In the I'eport for 1880 we find this entry. As regards the December outbreak the Collector of Ahmednagar writes as follows:— One man oat of a certain number of pilgi-iras belonging to the villages of Heewai'gaon, Pansa and Bota, in the Sangamner taluka, was attacked with cholera on the 5th December at the village of Ale, in the Jamner taluka of the Poena district, while the pilgrims were returning from the Alandi fair in that district. These men halted at Bota, a village in the Sangamner taluka on the Nasik and Poena road, on the 5th. Those that belonged to Heewargaon Pansa proceeded to their villages early in the morning of the 6th December, on which date 4 men belonging to Bota were attacked; of these 2 died on the same date, and the other 2 recovered. On the 7th 4 were attacked, of whom 2 died on the same date, and the rest recovered. One fresh case occurred on the 10th and one on the 1 1th, both these proved fatal. At Heewargaon the man who was first attacked recovered, but the other men belonarinff to the village attacked, died, &c.^' In 188] we find :— On the 19th August the first case of cholera appeared in Shedbal, a village in the Athni taluka of the Belgaum dis- trict. A week afterwards, it spread to three other surround- ing villages, and the attacks and deaths for the month were 175 and 60. The disease is said to have originated in the Athni taluka and was afterwards conveyed to Chikodi, 11](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2195351x_0085.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
