Report on the general aspects of epidemic cholera in 1872. / By J. L. Bryden.

  • Bryden, James L. (James Lumsdaine), 1833-1880.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Report on the general aspects of epidemic cholera in 1872. / By J. L. Bryden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And now, in 1873, the phenomenon repeats itself, as shown in the Table which follows :— Cholera Deat.hs of the General Population, North-Western Provinces, 1^73. D18TBICTS op N.-W. Phovinces. NuMBBE OF Choleba Dbaibs, Jancaet to July 1873. January. February. March. April. May. June. July. Kumaon and Ghurwal G4 239 327 748 627 359 7* Bijnour 5 6 9 8 6 5 3 Moiadabad 3 4 21 11 19 18 7 Bareilly 3 6 11 21 13 20 12 Shahjehanpore 1 4 7 Budaon 9 4 9 3 6 4 Deyrah Dhoon ... Seharuapore ... 1 2 '2 8 5 6 ' 1 Mozuffernuggur ... 2 1 Meerut, 1 1 3 6 19 ... Bolundshuhur 1 3 6 2 4 3 Allyghur 13 1 11 8 17 59 25 Btah 4 4 3 7 10 22 ■ 8 Etawah 1 1 3 24 1 Mynpoone ... 2 3 74 101 Agra I 2 ' g 12 ou / i Muttra 4 3 4 9 12 89 65 Futtehghur ... 1 1 4 1 5 8 7 Cawnpore 4 3 7 2 9 Futtehpore ... 1 18 122 112 Ban da 5 69 250 108 • Humeerpore ... 2 3 Jaloun Jhausi LuUutpore Allahabad 'l 5 27 43 92 389 122 Jounpore 7 25 68 64 174 126 Goruckpore ... 2 3 2 5 10 Bustee 3 1 8 11 38 30 Azimghur 9 4 11 18 85 121 Mirzapore 11 52 138 121 233 201 Benares 's 26 21 96 222 363 271 Ghazeepore ... 4 25 81 148 257 325 Total 113 343 565 1,305 1,525 2,720 1,753 I place here the registration of the entire area, to show that the cholera of the tract in question has no counterpart throughout Northern India. Even in the Gangetic portion of the North-Western Provinces nothing similar is found. We require to go to Eastern Bengal and the deltas of the great rivers, to find so early a revitalisatiou of a cholera distributed in the year before. In the country immediately to the south, Bijnour, Moradabad, Bareilly, Shahjehanpore and Budaon, no such reproduction occurred iu 1873. The Sanitary Commissioner for the North-Western Provinces mentions, that the Com- missioner of Kumaon had expressed to him his surprise, that this cholera of 1873 seemed to follow no lines of communication as he had expected. Nor do we find cholera brought down to Hurdwar b}^ pilgrims from the north, to the fair of 1873 in April, the month in which this cholera culminated. And it was with this Terai cholera of the early spring that the alleged importation of cholera in 1867 was associated. (c)—The preceding table shows that the districts around Hurdwar had no cholera in the spring of 1873. And in the country to the north, as far as the frontier, scarcely a trace of cholera was left. For the registration of the whole of the Punjab, from January to June 1873, gives only 45 deaths, distributed thus:— Cholera Deaths of the General Population of the Punjab, 1873, January to June. ' Jan. Feb. March. April. May. June. 4 2 4 10 11 14 The same phenomenon of almost absolute disappearance followed the epidemic invasion of the Punjab in 1867 and 1869. In 1868, the registration showed 532 cholera de;iths after a mortality of 43,146 in the epidemic of 1867 ; and in 1870 and 1871, 469 and 370 cholera deaths occurred after the epidemic of 1869 had pas.sed over the province. Here also the tendency to localisation is very weak, and scarcely occurs except when, as in ]8;)7 and 1862, the Punjab becomes the terminal area of an invading cholera. * Special report furnished to the end of August notes 31 deaths in the Terai at Knsheepon t