matters bearing oa the circumstances of the first cases of cholera occurring in a jail, should be noticed in reports sent us for publication, our object being to determine exactly how the disease is introduced among the convicts. We may be quite sure
that
cholera-infecting matter is not a thing of spontaneous generation, nor has it wings that it can fly like a bird over jail walls; nevertheless, it has means of entrance through drains, clothing, food, and such like media which are often most difficult to
discover, and require a searching and patient investigation, which, persevered in, will lead to valuable results, indicatinD the means to be pursued in the preventive treatment of this formidable disease among our convict population. As a Oood illustration of the sort of report which we want, and which must add to materially
we
INDIAN CHOLERA. the Lancet for the 26th
Under this
heading,
makes
comments
some
on an
November, 1870,
outbreak of cholera which occurred
in
February 1870 ; the Lancet had gained subject from Allen's Indian News, and the editor justly remarks,?"to sum up the matter, the medical officer (in charge of the Jounpore prison) was quite unable to connect the origin of the epidemic with any cause within his cognizance. "We are not told whether the drinking water was subject to chemical analysis. When an outbreak of the kind occurs on so limited a scale as this, a really exhaustive enquiry can be undertaken with some hope of success, and we would strongly urge this being done on the occasion of any similar epidemic." "Writing on this subject in our editorial for June 1870, we observed,?"we need hardly say what an inestimable toon it would be to those anxious to arrive at an honest conclusion regarding the causes influencing the progress of cholera over India, if they were put in possession of facts relating to its spread as they occurred, so that they mi
that
cholera-infecting matter is not a thing of spontaneous generation, nor has it wings that it can fly like a bird over jail walls; nevertheless, it has means of entrance through drains, clothing, food, and such like media which are often most difficult to
discover, and require a searching and patient investigation, which, persevered in, will lead to valuable results, indicatinD the means to be pursued in the preventive treatment of this formidable disease among our convict population. As a Oood illustration of the sort of report which we want, and which must add to materially
we
INDIAN CHOLERA. the Lancet for the 26th
Under this
heading,
makes
comments
some
on an
November, 1870,
outbreak of cholera which occurred
in
February 1870 ; the Lancet had gained subject from Allen's Indian News, and the editor justly remarks,?"to sum up the matter, the medical officer (in charge of the Jounpore prison) was quite unable to connect the origin of the epidemic with any cause within his cognizance. "We are not told whether the drinking water was subject to chemical analysis. When an outbreak of the kind occurs on so limited a scale as this, a really exhaustive enquiry can be undertaken with some hope of success, and we would strongly urge this being done on the occasion of any similar epidemic." "Writing on this subject in our editorial for June 1870, we observed,?"we need hardly say what an inestimable toon it would be to those anxious to arrive at an honest conclusion regarding the causes influencing the progress of cholera over India, if they were put in possession of facts relating to its spread as they occurred, so that they mi
