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CHOLERA IN INDIA IN 1879.
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preceding weeks, were 195 on Saturday last ; 41 new Pioner states that from 20,000 to 30,000 hillmen perished of small-pox were admitted to these hospitals during from cholera on their way home from the Hurdwar fair. last week, against 42 and 35 in the two previous weeks. Correspondents in the lay press have consequently urged upon Government the necessity of abolishing these large two
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Indian fairs (melas), which become mere foci for the propaTHE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. gation of epidemics. It has also been suggested that pilgrims should be prohibited from visiting the fort at AllahaTHE election of four Fellows on the Council of the bad during the hot weather months, since, when cholera College of Surgeons was held on the 3rd inst., when the breaks out at Allahabad, it invariably shows itself first ballot commenced at two o’clock and closed at five. The among the European garrison located in the fort. vacancies were occasioned by the death of Mr. Hilton and Surgeon-General Innes, A.M.D., has taken wise precauof tions with regard to Peshawur, which is always infected in Messrs. the Wells retirement (who sought by Spencer cholera Le Gros seasons. He has recommended that the whole and the six candiClark, Critchett ; re-election), dates being Messrs. Wells, Barwell, Wood, Bryant, Power, European garrison should be marched out into the surround. and Hutchinson. The result of the-voting was as follows : ing hills, thus anticipating the dreaded foe. A correspondent in the Pioneer gives a valuable and Mr. Spencer Wells 139 Mr. John Wood................ 129, graphic account of the method of propagation of cholera 129 among the coolies travelling up the river Brahmaputra to Mr. Hutchinson Assam, where they are employed on the tea-plantations. 126 Mr. Power The coolies are recruited chiefly from the North-West Pro. Mr. Thos. Bryant............... 97 vinces, and Oude. 22 Mr. Barwell The condition of things, which is stated to have existed The President declared the first four of the above to be for many years past, is one most discreditable to all the Mr. Hutchinson elected. Mr. Power had 19 plumpers, 15, officials concerned. He shall speak for himself :—"Ishall Mr. Wood 11, Mr. Bryant 9, Mr. Barwell 3, and Mr. first describe the facilities on board the steamers for the Wells.2. of cholera. The, only means of personal ablution on The Fellows voting were’ fewer than usual, but the spread board for the coolies are two tubs, which are placed alongattendance from the country was large. A goodly number side the latrines. Into these two tubs a few buckets of of specimens which have been added to the Hunterian water are lifted from time to time by one of the crew. These Museum during the past year were exhibited, and included tubs were originally intended, I believe, to aflord opseveral sections of the limbs and trunk. The Fellows dined portunity for ablution after defecation, but practically they I are the only means the coolies have of getting a wash. together at the Albion Tavern, in the evening, under the have seen a woman washing her baby’s clothes at one of of John Mr. Gay.. presidency these tubs, and forty or fifty coolies scrambling to get a little water out of it, and then, after washing their bodies, rinsing their mouths with the filthy liquid....... I have now to refer to the source whence the steamers are affected. THE MURCHISON MEMORIAL. The Calcutta depots are situated in Sealdah and its vicinity - the filthiest part of., the town-and outside the range of A GENERAL MEETING of subscribers to the Murchison municipal water. They are, to all outward appearance, Memorial Scholarship was held at 11, Grafton-street, on models of cleanliness, neatness, and good management. The June 30th, Dr. Risdon Bennett in the chair, and the follow. huts are good, dry, airy, and have ample accommodation. Careful arrangements. are made for having the municipal ing resolutions were unanimously adopted -water conveyed in earthen vessels over a distance ranging the of the Murchison 1. That award Memorial Scholarfrom half to three-quarters of a mile. The water is stored ship in London shall be open to students in all the London in excellent iron tanks, provided with good taps, and is remedical schools, without reference to graduation at any served exclusively for drinking purposes ; but in spite of all university. 2. That the Committee be empowered to request the precautions it was found, on one occasion at all events, the yield to the temptation of taking water from College of Physicians to administer the London scholarship. water-carriers 3. That in order that there may not be two separate a foul tank close to the dep6t. So far, however, everymay be set down. to the credit side ; how for the appeals to the public, the London and Edinburgh Murchison thing Memorial Committee are willing to guarantee to the St. other side- of the account? The ablution arrangements Thomas’s Hospital Committee,the sum of £300 for a bust or are nearly as bad as they are on board the steamers. other memorial in connexion with St. Thomas’s Hospital, I saw one tank, about fifty yards’ square, at which hundreds of coolies bathe for weeks in succession. The on condition that all subscriptions received by the latter be water had a thick soupy consistence. I also saw a added to the common Memorial Fund. 4. That the Executive Committee already nominated be batch of coolies bathing in a hole which- is a receptacle of drainage: They bathe; wash their clothes, and, of empowered to take all steps needful for the carrying out of roadside rinse, their mouths with the filthy stuff: Remembercourse, the purposes of the Memorial. ing that Sealdah is the favourite haunt of cholera in Calcutta, is it, I would ask, with such arrangements for ablution, any matter of wonder that these depots export weekly of infected coolies, who carry the cholera with consignments CHOLERA IN INDIA IN 1879. The crews of the them to the uttermost parts of Assam? The time-expired steamers are exempt from cholera." (From a Correspondent.) coolies returning from Assam scarcely ever suffer from THE year 1879 already bids fair to obtain an unenviable cholera; while coolies in the short passage to Assamto eighteen days-as this writer shows, have, for the notoriety in the annals of cholera. Cases have been re- fifteen had a fearful mortality of 450 per 1000 on sixteen past ported at Simla; Naini Tal, where Surgeon-Major A. R. the voyage. years, The same class- of coolies sent to the colonies Kilroy, A.M.D., fell a victim to the disease; at Kasauli, have an annual death-rate of only 100 per 1000 on the where the 70th lost six men on their march to Subathu. voyage (one of three months), including that of infants born At Cawnpore four cases have occurred in the 2nd-6th, a on the voyage. A short time since the amount of cholera levy of boys imported last December. At Meerut the 15th amongthe Assam-bound coolies was stated to be due to over; then a non-labouring prisoner’s diet was given inHussars, on their way down from the front, lost eight men feeding Yet still the terrible sickness and mortality constead. out of nineteen. The men had been placed in carriages pretinue. The crews of the river steamers rarely suffer from viously used by Hurdwar pilgrims ! At Rawul Pindi there cholera. have been nine cases, seven fatal, among Europeans. The’ Bengal, May, 1879. ............
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preceding weeks, were 195 on Saturday last ; 41 new Pioner states that from 20,000 to 30,000 hillmen perished of small-pox were admitted to these hospitals during from cholera on their way home from the Hurdwar fair. last week, against 42 and 35 in the two previous weeks. Correspondents in the lay press have consequently urged upon Government the necessity of abolishing these large two
cases
Indian fairs (melas), which become mere foci for the propaTHE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. gation of epidemics. It has also been suggested that pilgrims should be prohibited from visiting the fort at AllahaTHE election of four Fellows on the Council of the bad during the hot weather months, since, when cholera College of Surgeons was held on the 3rd inst., when the breaks out at Allahabad, it invariably shows itself first ballot commenced at two o’clock and closed at five. The among the European garrison located in the fort. vacancies were occasioned by the death of Mr. Hilton and Surgeon-General Innes, A.M.D., has taken wise precauof tions with regard to Peshawur, which is always infected in Messrs. the Wells retirement (who sought by Spencer cholera Le Gros seasons. He has recommended that the whole and the six candiClark, Critchett ; re-election), dates being Messrs. Wells, Barwell, Wood, Bryant, Power, European garrison should be marched out into the surround. and Hutchinson. The result of the-voting was as follows : ing hills, thus anticipating the dreaded foe. A correspondent in the Pioneer gives a valuable and Mr. Spencer Wells 139 Mr. John Wood................ 129, graphic account of the method of propagation of cholera 129 among the coolies travelling up the river Brahmaputra to Mr. Hutchinson Assam, where they are employed on the tea-plantations. 126 Mr. Power The coolies are recruited chiefly from the North-West Pro. Mr. Thos. Bryant............... 97 vinces, and Oude. 22 Mr. Barwell The condition of things, which is stated to have existed The President declared the first four of the above to be for many years past, is one most discreditable to all the Mr. Hutchinson elected. Mr. Power had 19 plumpers, 15, officials concerned. He shall speak for himself :—"Ishall Mr. Wood 11, Mr. Bryant 9, Mr. Barwell 3, and Mr. first describe the facilities on board the steamers for the Wells.2. of cholera. The, only means of personal ablution on The Fellows voting were’ fewer than usual, but the spread board for the coolies are two tubs, which are placed alongattendance from the country was large. A goodly number side the latrines. Into these two tubs a few buckets of of specimens which have been added to the Hunterian water are lifted from time to time by one of the crew. These Museum during the past year were exhibited, and included tubs were originally intended, I believe, to aflord opseveral sections of the limbs and trunk. The Fellows dined portunity for ablution after defecation, but practically they I are the only means the coolies have of getting a wash. together at the Albion Tavern, in the evening, under the have seen a woman washing her baby’s clothes at one of of John Mr. Gay.. presidency these tubs, and forty or fifty coolies scrambling to get a little water out of it, and then, after washing their bodies, rinsing their mouths with the filthy liquid....... I have now to refer to the source whence the steamers are affected. THE MURCHISON MEMORIAL. The Calcutta depots are situated in Sealdah and its vicinity - the filthiest part of., the town-and outside the range of A GENERAL MEETING of subscribers to the Murchison municipal water. They are, to all outward appearance, Memorial Scholarship was held at 11, Grafton-street, on models of cleanliness, neatness, and good management. The June 30th, Dr. Risdon Bennett in the chair, and the follow. huts are good, dry, airy, and have ample accommodation. Careful arrangements. are made for having the municipal ing resolutions were unanimously adopted -water conveyed in earthen vessels over a distance ranging the of the Murchison 1. That award Memorial Scholarfrom half to three-quarters of a mile. The water is stored ship in London shall be open to students in all the London in excellent iron tanks, provided with good taps, and is remedical schools, without reference to graduation at any served exclusively for drinking purposes ; but in spite of all university. 2. That the Committee be empowered to request the precautions it was found, on one occasion at all events, the yield to the temptation of taking water from College of Physicians to administer the London scholarship. water-carriers 3. That in order that there may not be two separate a foul tank close to the dep6t. So far, however, everymay be set down. to the credit side ; how for the appeals to the public, the London and Edinburgh Murchison thing Memorial Committee are willing to guarantee to the St. other side- of the account? The ablution arrangements Thomas’s Hospital Committee,the sum of £300 for a bust or are nearly as bad as they are on board the steamers. other memorial in connexion with St. Thomas’s Hospital, I saw one tank, about fifty yards’ square, at which hundreds of coolies bathe for weeks in succession. The on condition that all subscriptions received by the latter be water had a thick soupy consistence. I also saw a added to the common Memorial Fund. 4. That the Executive Committee already nominated be batch of coolies bathing in a hole which- is a receptacle of drainage: They bathe; wash their clothes, and, of empowered to take all steps needful for the carrying out of roadside rinse, their mouths with the filthy stuff: Remembercourse, the purposes of the Memorial. ing that Sealdah is the favourite haunt of cholera in Calcutta, is it, I would ask, with such arrangements for ablution, any matter of wonder that these depots export weekly of infected coolies, who carry the cholera with consignments CHOLERA IN INDIA IN 1879. The crews of the them to the uttermost parts of Assam? The time-expired steamers are exempt from cholera." (From a Correspondent.) coolies returning from Assam scarcely ever suffer from THE year 1879 already bids fair to obtain an unenviable cholera; while coolies in the short passage to Assamto eighteen days-as this writer shows, have, for the notoriety in the annals of cholera. Cases have been re- fifteen had a fearful mortality of 450 per 1000 on sixteen past ported at Simla; Naini Tal, where Surgeon-Major A. R. the voyage. years, The same class- of coolies sent to the colonies Kilroy, A.M.D., fell a victim to the disease; at Kasauli, have an annual death-rate of only 100 per 1000 on the where the 70th lost six men on their march to Subathu. voyage (one of three months), including that of infants born At Cawnpore four cases have occurred in the 2nd-6th, a on the voyage. A short time since the amount of cholera levy of boys imported last December. At Meerut the 15th amongthe Assam-bound coolies was stated to be due to over; then a non-labouring prisoner’s diet was given inHussars, on their way down from the front, lost eight men feeding Yet still the terrible sickness and mortality constead. out of nineteen. The men had been placed in carriages pretinue. The crews of the river steamers rarely suffer from viously used by Hurdwar pilgrims ! At Rawul Pindi there cholera. have been nine cases, seven fatal, among Europeans. The’ Bengal, May, 1879. ............
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