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Extension of cholera
in Native Bazaars of
Secunderabad after 24th
May.
of Secunderabad as early as, and probably prior to, the 20th May. On the 24th,
the day preceding the memorable outbreak in the Hussar
Regiment, there were five attacks and two deaths in the bazaar,
and four attacks in a village adjacent to the cantonment. On
the 25th there were six fresh attacks only reported in the natives of the
cantonment, but on the 25th and 26th, respectively, there were twelve and
thirteen new attacks. The disease gradually extended to the villages and
bazaars in the neighbourhood. It reached the city of Hyderabad, five miles
distant, only on the 6th June.
Prolongation of e pide,
mic amongst the Native
population.
41. While the epidemic in the Hussars was practically at an end by the
fifth day, it was not so in the Native town. The disease
continues in the native portions of the cantonment and
adjacent villages to the present time, and up to the 23rd July
there had been reported a total of 252 cases and 117 deaths, out of a popula-
tion of from 40,000 to 50,000 persons. The disease continued for some weeks
in the native town of Hyderabad, and became rather general in villages to the
northward.
Extension of disease
to Native villages about
Trimulgherry, and isola-
ted attacks in European
troops there.
42. From some affected villages close to the barracks at Trimulgherry the
disease appears to have spread to the Royal Artillery sta-
tioned in the double-storied barracks.
Two Artillery men were attacked and died on the 25th of
June, but cholera had been severe in a Native village close
by, for some weeks previous to these attacks. A case subsequently occurred in
the 2-24th Regiment occupying the barracks within the entrenchment, and
another in Her Majesty's 76th Regiment, but up to this time there has happily
been no further extension of the disease to the European community of
Trimulgherry.
43. The object of the present inquiry has been to ascertain the circum-
stances under which cholera became so intensified in the Hussar Regiment,
while the Officers of the Corps, the European residents of the Cantonment, and
the large European force at Trimulgherry (averaging 1,793 strong) gave little or
no evidence of having been exposed to the special contagium of the disease.
44. In pursuing this inquiry it will be proper to take into account every
circumstance that might have influenced the local development of the disease
in the Hussars, and to state the facts as clearly as possible, without reference to
theoretical considerations.
Health of Hussars
impaired "by long resi-
dence at Secunderabad.
45. The 18th Hussars have resided for nearly six years in Secunderabad,
whereas no other European Corps present has occupied the
station for half that time. The health of the Regiment,
according to Surgeon Clery and Assistant Surgeon Scott,
has considerably deteriorated of late. In 1869 there was a good deal of
sickness. The latter Officer describes the men as anemic at the end of the hot
weather of 1871, and having " a washed-out appearance." It seems clear that
the deaths and invaliding of the Hussars have been in higher ratios than those
of the 17th Lancers, formerly occupying the same barracks.
The following statistics will show the yearly admissions, deaths, and
invaliding during the time a Cavalry Corps has been stationed in the old barracks,
Secunderabad :—
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