The history of the contagious cholera ; with facts explanatory of its origin and laws, and of a rational method of cure. / By James Kennedy.

  • Kennedy, James, 1803-1868.
Date:
1831
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Credit: The history of the contagious cholera ; with facts explanatory of its origin and laws, and of a rational method of cure. / By James Kennedy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    JEYPORE, TITIRYA. Prom Delhi the disease would seem to have spread in a south-west direction to the principality of Jeypore, the capital of which it reached in the latter end of August. Here it was neither very general nor virulent, being almost confined to the most wretched class of the inhabitants. The whole mortality, including that of the circumjacent country, scarcely exceeded one thousand persons. The distemper began to abate in the city the 12th of September; but, during the 14th, it appeared in the camp of a detached force commanded by Major Agnew, at a place called Titirya, a distance of twenty-five miles from Jeypore. In the camp the cholera assumed a virulent character, and continued to extend until the 28th of the month, after which it gradually abated. Of 96 Euro- peans and 4,100 natives, composing the fighting men, the admissions were 292, of whom 122 died. Among the camp-followers, the casualties could not be correctly ascertained. The contagion ap- pears to have been exhausted in this direction ; for the present invasion did not extend to the town of Ajmeer, which is only eighty miles dis- tant from Jeypore. The valley of Ajmeer also escaped; and its exemption is the more remark- able, as a large division of the Rajpootana troops were encamped in the valley at the time, on simi-