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Jail mortality in relation to season. Distribution by Months of 100 deaths from the chief causes of mor -
tality (1867-76) . . .
160
Composition of the death-rate of the jails under the different administrations. Standard of 1867-76.
160
Deaths from bowel complaints in the Meerut Jail (1867-76), to show how the mortality from bowel
complaints falls in relation to season . . .
161
Table showing the fluctuation in the mortality of the great jails of Upper India during the 18
years. An index to the remarks contained in the chapters which follow . . .
164
Statement proving that contagious fevers have not appeared in these 18 years in the jails of Bengal
Proper . . .
166
Death-ratios of Monghyr Jail in the two nine-year periods, illustrating the great improvement in the
health of the prisoners . . .
167
Death-ratios of 18 years of the Rungpore, Backergunge and Dinagepore Jails—a record of exceedingly
high mortality throughout the period. Facies of disease in these jails . . .
168
Death-ratios and the causes of deaths in the Benares Central Jail, taken as typical for the jails of the
Gangetic Provinces . . .
168
Lucknow Central Jail. Two aspects—extreme unhealthiness up to 1866, and the highest attainable
standard of health from 1867 onwards . . .
171
Allababad Jail, attacked by three forms of epidemic contagious disease in the 18 years . . .
171
Meerut Jail for the 18 years—showing the effects of contagious fever and famine, and of dysentery
produced by endemic causes affecting the prisoners . . .
172
The Lahore Central Jail, affected by various forms of epidemic contagious disease, illustrating the
medical history of other large jails of Northern India . . .
176
The deaths from contagious fevers in the Rawalpindi Jail, shown consecutively through the months
of seven years, indicating the persistence of the fevers, and their obedience to the law of
growth and decay . . .
177
Deaths from contagious fevers—Typhus and Relapsing, which have occurred in the more important
jail outbreaks between 1859 and 1873, and the relation of the outbreaks to the meteorological
influences prevalent at the different seasons of the year . . .
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TEN YEAR STANDARD FOR THE JAIL POPULATION OF THE BENGAL PRESIDENCY,
1867 TO 1876.—TABLES I TO LVI.
Table of Contents is prefixed to the Tabular Statements.
SECTION IV.
THE CHOLERA HISTORY OF 1875 AND 1876, ILLUSTRATING HOW THE AREA OF
HINDOSTAN WHEN UNOCCUPIED IS RE-INVADED BY EPIDEMIC CHOLERA.
C H A P T
E R I .
THE DYING-OUT OF CHOLERA OVER HINDOSTAN IN 1873 AND 1874, AND THE MINIMUM
REACHED.
The succession of epidemics is in India a recognised fact. The fact should be recognised in countries
invaded from India . . .
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Geography of the successive epidemics of the past 11 years, and its significance in each case . . .
275
D e c a y o f c h o l e r a t h r o u g h o u t 1 8 7 3 a n d 1 8 7 4 . . .
2 7 5
The minimum recognised in every Presidency and Province of India. Provinces of Bengal . . .
2 7 6
" " Bombay Presidency
276
" " Madras Presidency.
276
Why the cholera of 1872 did not extend in the Madras Presidency . . .
277
General features of the cholera of 1872 on the southern epidemic highway . . .
277
Death of cholera in the Bombay Presidency in March 1873 . . .
278
CHAPTER II.
THE RE-APPEARANCE OF CHOLERA WITHIN THE UNOCCUPIED AREA IN THE SPRING
OF 1875.
The cholera of the spring of 1875 did not appear over India following human intercourse. How it did
appear, and parallel occurrences as illustrative of the phenomenon . . .
279
Parallel history teaches, that the occupation of great areas of Hindostan by an epidemic cholera in
motion, but unable to show its presence because distributed at a season when it is incapable of
manifestation, is a fact . . .
279
The first case which gave warning that in the spring of 1875 cholera might appear over Western India.
279
Dates at which the spring cholera of 1875 was manifested over India . . .
280
" Bombay Presidency. The cholera of April 1875 did not radiate from Nasik . . .
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" Madras Presidency. The cholera of April was not imported from Ceylon . . .
281
Ceylon exempted in 1874, as well as the Continent of India . . .
281
First appearance of cholera in the Berars . . .
281
" in the Central Provinces . . .
281
" in Western Malwa . . .
281
" in Bundelkhund . . .
282
" in Rajpootana . . .
282
" in Northern India, west of 80° . . .
282
" in Agra, Muttra, and Bhurtpore . . .
282
" i n t h e P u n j a b . . .
282
The special area of early spring cholera in the north, the districts of Upper India east of 80° E.
Long.
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Area of repression—west of 80° . . .
282
Area of repression in the Central Provinces . . .
283