the INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE.
140 CHOLERA.
Ik our last issue we described the extent to which cholera prevailed in the certain districts of the North-Western Provinces. The disease still continues to prevail in the districts of Allahabad, Jounpore, Bustee, Mirznpore, Benares, and Azimgurh, and has broken out besides in those of Goruckpore and Cawnpore. The following imperfect table, founded on the reports of the police, will give some idea of the extent to which this scourge exists in the districts abovementioned. Deaths reported from 15th April to 15th May.
District.
Allahabad
1,725
Jounpore
3.403
Bustee
4,106
Mirzapore
390 341
Benares
Azimgurh Goruckpore Cawnpore
3,050 1.118
1,003
13,144
Total
far from the truth, reThe Civil Surgeons of the districts in question are of course doing their utmost in the way of distributing medicines, deputing nntive doctors, and advising the civil authorities, but these efforts are feeble in the face of a vast and wide-spread epidemic. While this disease is thus raging over a broad tract of country, and has been so for about two months, we hear of nothing in the shape of a systematic "inquiry." It is alleged that the disease has visited more particularly and severely the tracts submerged last year by the unusual inundation. Have the two circumstances any relation ? The allegation appears to warrant some careful investigation. One or more medical officers, specially deputed to ascertain the facts of the case, would have ample opportunity of collecting information which might be productive of valuable results. We cannot rest content with metaphors, and though "sheets of cholera" may be a very pretty way of expressing a broad fact by way of figure of speech, it is a miserable cloak of ignorance in the face of a calamity which is causing the destruction of hundred of lives daily. Case3 have also been reported from Chunar and Agra. In the Punjab, the disease hns been prevailing in the district of Umballa, and has appeared at Kurnal and .Tuilundur. A case has also been reported from the Lahore Lunatic Asylum. There have been cases among the men of the 2-19tli Regiment and 33rd N. I. at Allahabad, and l-8th Regiment and A Battery of 19th Brigade R. A. at Cawnpore. At the former station, cases have occurred in both the central and district jails and among the police. Cholera has also appeared in the city of Bnrhanpore in the Nimar district of the Central Provinces. There were 23 cases and 11 deaths from the 30th April to the 3rd May. The disease prevails extensively in tho neighbourhood of Mhow, and attacked a part of recruits which arrived in the station on the 5th May. en route to Mehidpore. Nine cases occurred in a party of 22 with 4 deaths. Cholera still prevails in the province of Ondh, but we have not had detailed accounts recently. In Bengal its existence lias been reported from Arrah, Purulia, Monghyr, Beerbhoom, and the Durjeeling Terai. It is evident from the above that the disease continues to prevail severely in the localities previously specified, and to spread to other and contiguous places. We hope that careful and continuous observations are being recorded, regarding the circumstances of this most serious and wide-spread out break. This total, which is
probably
presents tremendous calamity.
very
[Juke 1,
1S72.
140 CHOLERA.
Ik our last issue we described the extent to which cholera prevailed in the certain districts of the North-Western Provinces. The disease still continues to prevail in the districts of Allahabad, Jounpore, Bustee, Mirznpore, Benares, and Azimgurh, and has broken out besides in those of Goruckpore and Cawnpore. The following imperfect table, founded on the reports of the police, will give some idea of the extent to which this scourge exists in the districts abovementioned. Deaths reported from 15th April to 15th May.
District.
Allahabad
1,725
Jounpore
3.403
Bustee
4,106
Mirzapore
390 341
Benares
Azimgurh Goruckpore Cawnpore
3,050 1.118
1,003
13,144
Total
far from the truth, reThe Civil Surgeons of the districts in question are of course doing their utmost in the way of distributing medicines, deputing nntive doctors, and advising the civil authorities, but these efforts are feeble in the face of a vast and wide-spread epidemic. While this disease is thus raging over a broad tract of country, and has been so for about two months, we hear of nothing in the shape of a systematic "inquiry." It is alleged that the disease has visited more particularly and severely the tracts submerged last year by the unusual inundation. Have the two circumstances any relation ? The allegation appears to warrant some careful investigation. One or more medical officers, specially deputed to ascertain the facts of the case, would have ample opportunity of collecting information which might be productive of valuable results. We cannot rest content with metaphors, and though "sheets of cholera" may be a very pretty way of expressing a broad fact by way of figure of speech, it is a miserable cloak of ignorance in the face of a calamity which is causing the destruction of hundred of lives daily. Case3 have also been reported from Chunar and Agra. In the Punjab, the disease hns been prevailing in the district of Umballa, and has appeared at Kurnal and .Tuilundur. A case has also been reported from the Lahore Lunatic Asylum. There have been cases among the men of the 2-19tli Regiment and 33rd N. I. at Allahabad, and l-8th Regiment and A Battery of 19th Brigade R. A. at Cawnpore. At the former station, cases have occurred in both the central and district jails and among the police. Cholera has also appeared in the city of Bnrhanpore in the Nimar district of the Central Provinces. There were 23 cases and 11 deaths from the 30th April to the 3rd May. The disease prevails extensively in tho neighbourhood of Mhow, and attacked a part of recruits which arrived in the station on the 5th May. en route to Mehidpore. Nine cases occurred in a party of 22 with 4 deaths. Cholera still prevails in the province of Ondh, but we have not had detailed accounts recently. In Bengal its existence lias been reported from Arrah, Purulia, Monghyr, Beerbhoom, and the Durjeeling Terai. It is evident from the above that the disease continues to prevail severely in the localities previously specified, and to spread to other and contiguous places. We hope that careful and continuous observations are being recorded, regarding the circumstances of this most serious and wide-spread out break. This total, which is
probably
presents tremendous calamity.
very
[Juke 1,
1S72.
