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Area of repression in four districts of the Berars . . .
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Geography of the sprin
g cholera of Bombay . . .
283
The area in Western and Southern India which remained unoccupied by spring cholera . . .
283
Goruckpore and Busti, the tract first affected by the new epidemic. The aspect in this tract of the
cholera of the end of 1874 . . .
283
The re-invasion of Oudh . . .
283
The appearance and growth of cholera in Upper and Northern India in the spring of 1875 . . .
284
Growth of cholera in the early spring area of the Central Provinces, in the first quarter of 1875 . . .
284
Growth of the spring cholera of Madras and Bombay of 1875 . . .
284
All throughout India the manifestations of spring cholera in 1875 were links in one common chain . . .
284
CHAPTER, III.
THE GENERAL PHENOMENA ATTENDING THE OCCUPATION OF THE CHOLERA AREA OF
THE SPRING OF 1875.
The cholera of the spring of 1875 was neither introduced by human intercourse, nor locally grown
from pre-existing germs . . .
285
The parallel of the invasion of Western India in 1872. Appreciation of this invasion in the spring
of 1872 . . .
285
The significance of the spring cholera of 1818 of Western India, reviewed after the experience of
1872 and1875 . . .
286
The cholera of the endemic area preceding and accompanying the new cholera of 1874-75 . . .
287
General conclusion regarding the primary distribution of the epidemic . . .
287
CHAPTER IV.
THE CHOLERA OF THE MONSOON OF 1875.
Meteorology of the third week of June, over Central and Upper India . . .
288
The first appearance of the cholera of 1875 in Northern India was with the monsoon . . .
288
Invasion of the Punjab. Occupation of the eastern districts and of the Himalayas . . .
288
Parallel in the Berars of the invasion of 20th June of Northern India . . .
289
Movement of 20th June, affecting only the three northern districts of the Nizam's territories geogra
-
phically associated with the Berars . . .
289
The districts of the Central Provinces adjoining were not entered by cholera on 20th June . . .
289
The general invasion of the Central Provinces was from 20th July onwards . . .
289
What was in progress in the Central Provinces at this date was but a portion of a far wider movement . . .
290
The cholera deaths registered in the Bombay Presidency in 1875 re-arranged according to a natural
method. The striking phenomena displayed . . .
290
Analysis of the death registration of the Madras Presidency, showing the limits of the areas of spring
and monsoon cholera . . .
293
Invasion of Madras. The sequence in which the area of the Presidency was covered—A, by spring
cholera; and B, by monsoon cholera . . .
294
The tract in the north-east of Madras a natural area, and exhibited as such by the distribution of
cholera in 1872 and 1875 . . .
295
How and whence the cholera of the monsoon of 1875 moved on the Madras Presidency . . .
295
The invasion of July 1818 as illustrative . . .
295
The parallel phenomenon of renewed activity displayed by the cholera of the Punjab of the same week.
296
The extreme northern limit of the epidemic of 1875. The limitation defined, and identified as the
same which defined the epidemics of 1856 and 1861 . . .
2 9 6
The British soldier taken as a type, and the homologous phenomenon of the attack of many cantonments
over the whole epidemic area within a few days, in the monsoon of 1875 . . .
297
Renewed activity in Upper India at dates subsequent to the first week of August . . .
297
The death of the cholera of 1875 in Upper, Central and Western India, while it remained in vital
a c t i v i t y i n t h e e x t r e m e s o u t h . . .
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CHAPTER V.
THE LEADING FEATURES OF THE CHOLERA OF 1876.
Great development of cholera in the endemic area in the end of 1876. Was there any fresh distribu
-
tion of cholera over India coincident with this manifestation? . . .
299
The increase over Madras at this time may have been only that normal for the season, and related to a
cholera already present . . .
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Shadow of cholera in the Central Provinces at this time . . .
300
Banda, cholera of October 1876 . . .
300
Aspect of cholera in Bombay in 1876. Was the cholera of the spring of 1877 of the Deccan a new
cholera? . . .
300
Aspect of the cholera of 1876 in the North-Western Provinces and Oudli . . .
300
The onward progress in 1876 of the cholera of 1875, in Northern India. The advance into Cashmere
and beyond the Frontier in the spring of 1876 . . .
301
The possibility of limitation in the North-West anticipated in August 1875. The general anticipa
-
tions then formed, as given to the Government of India at the time . . .
301
How these anticipations were realized . . .
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The limitation in the North-West, the aerial wall which retained the cholera. What is meant by an
aerial wall admirably illustrated by the geography of the death registration of the Punjab of
1875, as contrasted with that of 1876 . . .
302
This illustration typical against the theory of the radiation of cholera . . .
302
Cholera of the Bolan Pass of 9th April 1876. Probably an invading cholera of November 1875 . . .
304
Parallel. The Cashmere cholera of April 1876, invading in the end of 1875 . . .
304
The significance of the April cholera of the Frontier of 1876 illustrated by the epidemic phenomena
of April 1875 . . .
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An isolated case of cholera on 10th April 1876 in Delhi Fort, a shadow of the same in the East of the
P u n j a b . . .
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