THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE.
256 CHOLERA.
Cholera has been steadily declining in severity in the Punjab during the month of September; this is very well shown by the following figures extracted from the Punjab Gazette :? Deaths
during me week ending
Districts.
Sept. 7th. Sept. 14th. Sept. 21st, CJoorgaon
Delhi Hissar Sirsa Kurnal Umballah Xioodianah
17 36 75
Ferozepore
40
...
...
...
Jullundliur
70 154 6 113 14 38
Ilosbiarporo
Kangra...
Goordaspore
Umritsur Lahore
...
Mozuffergurh
"lOO
Gooj ranwallah Sealkote
Gujrat
87 24 14 34
Rawul Pindeo ITazara... Peshawar Kohat
6
'"so
13
40 6
36
1
1 13
4 44
...
103 8
104
8 6
Shahporo
Jhelum
69 53 50
57
...
3 12 20 23 50 31 19
6
17
29
12
"
1 21
84
...
2 3
[Montgomery Bunnoo
Total
887
373
GOO
The total number of deaths for each week since the outbreak of the disease in the province has been?April 20th, 5 ; 27th, 52 : May 4th, 76 ; 11th, 216; 18th, 341; 25th, 289 : June 1st, 178; 8th,
282; 15th, 331; 22nd, 232; 29th, 211: July 6th, 133; 13th, 96; 20th, 95; 27th, 103: August 3rd, 192; 10th, 270; 17th, 423 ; 24th, 753; and 31st, 1,084.
re-appearance of the disease at Lahore. severely in 1869, was attacked on the 20th of August. The following is a detail of the admissions and deaths among the sepoys and camp-followers of the garrison : There has been
no
Kohat, which suffered
so
?
Total
20th
Admissions.
CORPS.
Eazni-a
since
Dis-
charged.
Under treatment.
Remarks.
Mountain
liattery Ditto, Camp
Maliomedzai,
...
G. Company 1st Punjab Cavalry
2
I
24th
1
Aug.
Mahomed zai, 23rd Aug.
Ditto, Camp
2nd Sil;h
Infantry... Ditto, Camp
Dhoda, Aug.
4th Sikh
Infantry... Ditto, Camp
3rd
August, 1872.
27th
Chnmbai, 29th A ug. Pindee Road, 28th Aug, Includes Ex.
Punjab Infantry 41
Sudder Bazar
Engineer's servants.
Total each
Grand Total
111
Cholera ceased at Kohat on
on 19th September ; only one admission occurred 23rd, between 19th and 27th.
[November 1,
1872.
Peshawar has likewise been attacked. Up to the 11th Octocases and 27 deaths had occurred. Tne following details of this outbreak are taken from Indian Public Opinion :? " Cholera broke out in the lines of the 15th Loodiana Sikhs on Monday last, the 7th. They have had 3 cases in all, and 1 death. Then it attacked the 15th Bengal Cavalry, right at the other end of the station ; this was on the following day, and The next night the 36th 3 men were admitted?2 deaths. Native Infantry (next to them) had 1 case which proved fatal, took and 2 or 3 other admissions also place in the 21st and 26th Punjab Infantry. The 6th Foot lost one soldier, and the 55th Foot one woman. Tiie European detachment of the 55th Foot in the fort also had 4 or 5 cases about the same time, that is, Tuesday and Wednesday, and these men were actually sent into cantonments for treatment, and it is said spread the disease in their regiment! They had 12 cases iu all up to to-day, and the regiment is all more or less in camp. Meanwhile, there was a lull among the native troops on Thursday. On Friday morning, the 15th Bengal Cavalry had 3 more cases, of which 1 proved fatal; and 2 cases have also occurred in the detachment of that regiment out in camp, but they 'are mild ones. Three or 4 cases were also admitted in the 26th Punjab Infantry on the 11th and last night; and the 6th Foot have lost one other man. This latter regiment moves into camp at Bara on the 13th. The Artillery and 16th Bengal Cavalry are hitherto free; a few cases in the Sudder Bazar and some also in the city. Altogether it is thought the epidemic is a mild one, and it is quite possible the cold weather may check it. It is attributed, undoubtedly, to the removal of quarantine at Attock, from which place it must have been imported." The disease is said to have decreased in Cashmere, but it has broken out in Cabul. It is reported to have spread from Akcha towards Tashkurghan, where people were dying in great numbers. Another report from Cabul gives the significant intelligence " that Yakoob Beg, Kush Begi, Governor of Koolab, has died of cholera, and that this disease is very severe in the neighbourhood of Koolab, Ilissar, and other places on the other side of the Oxus." It is quite evident that the disease is travelling in a northwesterly direction along its accustomed route. From the other provinces of the Presidency no information of much importance has been received since our last issue. A few cases continue to occur in the districts of the NorthWestern Provinces previously affected. In the Central Provinces the disease had disappeared from Nimar, aud prevailed to a slight extent in the Wurdah, Hoshungabad, and Nursingpore districts. In Bengal, cases have continued to occur in Burdwan and Julpigoree ; and the disease has broken out in Dacca, Purneah, Bhaugulpore, Chumparun, and Beerbhoom, but not severely. The disease has been disappearing gradually from the Katmandoo valley since the beginning of September. Dr. Wright reports on the 14th October, that no deaths had occurred since The residency lines continued entirely exempt, the 10th. with the following remarkable exception:?Cholera was imported into the residency hospital by the wife of one of the patients, who came to see her husband ; she was attacked by the disease, and concealed the circu ustance till she was at the point of death. She was taken ill on Friday, the 20th September, in the afternoon, and died on Sunday at 2 p.m. The room she had occupied was fumigated, and disinfectants freely used; but in spite of the precautions taken, two of the other patients (both feeble, worn-out men) were attacked on Wednesday, the 25tii, about 5 a.m., and both died early on Tuesday morning. The hospital has been emptied of patients ; all the rooms have been fumigated and washed out with carbolic acid and Condy's fluid ; and the whole of the buildings are to be lime-washed as soon possible." No other cases occurred. The hospital stands at a considerable distance from the lines, aud there is a road and belt of trees between them.
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256 CHOLERA.
Cholera has been steadily declining in severity in the Punjab during the month of September; this is very well shown by the following figures extracted from the Punjab Gazette :? Deaths
during me week ending
Districts.
Sept. 7th. Sept. 14th. Sept. 21st, CJoorgaon
Delhi Hissar Sirsa Kurnal Umballah Xioodianah
17 36 75
Ferozepore
40
...
...
...
Jullundliur
70 154 6 113 14 38
Ilosbiarporo
Kangra...
Goordaspore
Umritsur Lahore
...
Mozuffergurh
"lOO
Gooj ranwallah Sealkote
Gujrat
87 24 14 34
Rawul Pindeo ITazara... Peshawar Kohat
6
'"so
13
40 6
36
1
1 13
4 44
...
103 8
104
8 6
Shahporo
Jhelum
69 53 50
57
...
3 12 20 23 50 31 19
6
17
29
12
"
1 21
84
...
2 3
[Montgomery Bunnoo
Total
887
373
GOO
The total number of deaths for each week since the outbreak of the disease in the province has been?April 20th, 5 ; 27th, 52 : May 4th, 76 ; 11th, 216; 18th, 341; 25th, 289 : June 1st, 178; 8th,
282; 15th, 331; 22nd, 232; 29th, 211: July 6th, 133; 13th, 96; 20th, 95; 27th, 103: August 3rd, 192; 10th, 270; 17th, 423 ; 24th, 753; and 31st, 1,084.
re-appearance of the disease at Lahore. severely in 1869, was attacked on the 20th of August. The following is a detail of the admissions and deaths among the sepoys and camp-followers of the garrison : There has been
no
Kohat, which suffered
so
?
Total
20th
Admissions.
CORPS.
Eazni-a
since
Dis-
charged.
Under treatment.
Remarks.
Mountain
liattery Ditto, Camp
Maliomedzai,
...
G. Company 1st Punjab Cavalry
2
I
24th
1
Aug.
Mahomed zai, 23rd Aug.
Ditto, Camp
2nd Sil;h
Infantry... Ditto, Camp
Dhoda, Aug.
4th Sikh
Infantry... Ditto, Camp
3rd
August, 1872.
27th
Chnmbai, 29th A ug. Pindee Road, 28th Aug, Includes Ex.
Punjab Infantry 41
Sudder Bazar
Engineer's servants.
Total each
Grand Total
111
Cholera ceased at Kohat on
on 19th September ; only one admission occurred 23rd, between 19th and 27th.
[November 1,
1872.
Peshawar has likewise been attacked. Up to the 11th Octocases and 27 deaths had occurred. Tne following details of this outbreak are taken from Indian Public Opinion :? " Cholera broke out in the lines of the 15th Loodiana Sikhs on Monday last, the 7th. They have had 3 cases in all, and 1 death. Then it attacked the 15th Bengal Cavalry, right at the other end of the station ; this was on the following day, and The next night the 36th 3 men were admitted?2 deaths. Native Infantry (next to them) had 1 case which proved fatal, took and 2 or 3 other admissions also place in the 21st and 26th Punjab Infantry. The 6th Foot lost one soldier, and the 55th Foot one woman. Tiie European detachment of the 55th Foot in the fort also had 4 or 5 cases about the same time, that is, Tuesday and Wednesday, and these men were actually sent into cantonments for treatment, and it is said spread the disease in their regiment! They had 12 cases iu all up to to-day, and the regiment is all more or less in camp. Meanwhile, there was a lull among the native troops on Thursday. On Friday morning, the 15th Bengal Cavalry had 3 more cases, of which 1 proved fatal; and 2 cases have also occurred in the detachment of that regiment out in camp, but they 'are mild ones. Three or 4 cases were also admitted in the 26th Punjab Infantry on the 11th and last night; and the 6th Foot have lost one other man. This latter regiment moves into camp at Bara on the 13th. The Artillery and 16th Bengal Cavalry are hitherto free; a few cases in the Sudder Bazar and some also in the city. Altogether it is thought the epidemic is a mild one, and it is quite possible the cold weather may check it. It is attributed, undoubtedly, to the removal of quarantine at Attock, from which place it must have been imported." The disease is said to have decreased in Cashmere, but it has broken out in Cabul. It is reported to have spread from Akcha towards Tashkurghan, where people were dying in great numbers. Another report from Cabul gives the significant intelligence " that Yakoob Beg, Kush Begi, Governor of Koolab, has died of cholera, and that this disease is very severe in the neighbourhood of Koolab, Ilissar, and other places on the other side of the Oxus." It is quite evident that the disease is travelling in a northwesterly direction along its accustomed route. From the other provinces of the Presidency no information of much importance has been received since our last issue. A few cases continue to occur in the districts of the NorthWestern Provinces previously affected. In the Central Provinces the disease had disappeared from Nimar, aud prevailed to a slight extent in the Wurdah, Hoshungabad, and Nursingpore districts. In Bengal, cases have continued to occur in Burdwan and Julpigoree ; and the disease has broken out in Dacca, Purneah, Bhaugulpore, Chumparun, and Beerbhoom, but not severely. The disease has been disappearing gradually from the Katmandoo valley since the beginning of September. Dr. Wright reports on the 14th October, that no deaths had occurred since The residency lines continued entirely exempt, the 10th. with the following remarkable exception:?Cholera was imported into the residency hospital by the wife of one of the patients, who came to see her husband ; she was attacked by the disease, and concealed the circu ustance till she was at the point of death. She was taken ill on Friday, the 20th September, in the afternoon, and died on Sunday at 2 p.m. The room she had occupied was fumigated, and disinfectants freely used; but in spite of the precautions taken, two of the other patients (both feeble, worn-out men) were attacked on Wednesday, the 25tii, about 5 a.m., and both died early on Tuesday morning. The hospital has been emptied of patients ; all the rooms have been fumigated and washed out with carbolic acid and Condy's fluid ; and the whole of the buildings are to be lime-washed as soon possible." No other cases occurred. The hospital stands at a considerable distance from the lines, aud there is a road and belt of trees between them.
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