On the communicability of cholera by human intercourse.

Date:
[1884?]
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Credit: On the communicability of cholera by human intercourse. 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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    OUTBREAK AT KAPADVANJ TOWN. Kai-jafc aud Jamkhed. lu September it passed northwards to the tulukas ot Rahuri aud Kopergaoii, the route by rail and road from Nagar towu to iVraumad.'^ * * * lu November it was only in one village of the Khed taluka, and iu December in Baramati, a large village iu the Baramati taluka, where the last case occurred on the last day of the year. Here the disease was ascribed to the great annual Jatra held at Phaltau (a town about 12 miles distant from Baramati J in honor of the god Kama on the 11th December. Daring this year the pilgrims attending the Alandi l^^air were not attacked, but those who attended the Phaltan Jatra suffered.'^ * * * Xu the town of Kapadvauj itself there were 188 attacks and 82 deaths, and the Collector aud the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner at once proceeded to it and other affected localities. The report regarding this outbreak by Dr. Colah, the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, Gujarat Registration district, is given below :— 1. 'The first case of cholera occurred on the 12th July. An old 2^citidar woman, aged about 60, went to see a rela- tive at Gogavada, a village of Nadiad taluka distant 12 miles. This relative was taken ill with cholera and died. The ])atidar woman returned to her house in Kapadvanj, took ill immediately after, and died of cholera. Though the Hospital Assistant reported through the police patel that this woman died of cholera, yet the death was returned under fever. Through whose fault this false registration occurred, is under investigation. From information received it appears that about this time cholera existed in Gogavada of Nadiad taluka and iu Kathlal of Kapadvauj taluka, villages situated ou the opposite banks of the river Wurasi. In these villages the disease is said to have been imported by travellers from Ahmedabad, but it was not reported officially.' The Ahmedabad Collectorate was free for the first four months of the year, but on the 4th May a sudden outbreak was reported from two villages in the Viramgam taluka,