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any person arrived in camp from the country north of the river Kistna in which cholera was then
prevailing. This force again experienced a pretty severe attack of it about the middle of April 1819
when encamped in the neighbourhood of Gudduck. At the commencement of this attack a strong-
easterly wind prevailed, but in a few days the wind changed to the west. After this period the
disease declined, the cases being fewer and milder than during the preceding days.
Bellary.
At Bellary it manifested itself on the 8th of September 1818; but until the 17th was partial and
confined to the native inhabitants. From this time until the end of the month
its attacks were pretty frequent in the troops both European and Native. It
declined about the beginning of October, and disappeared from the European troops on the 5th of
that month. About the 20th October it again attacked, with its former violence, the troops and
inhabitants, especially the lower fort where it was more prevalent than in any place without in the
immediate neighbourhood : and it did not disappear till towards the end of November. The greater
prevalence in the lower fort has been ascribed to its confined and crowded state ; the barracks of the
soldiery being surrounded by the huts and houses of the natives. Of five hundred prisoners in the
public jail of Bellary only one was attacked, and he recovered. The jail is situated about twelve
hundred yards eastward of the fort, and is surrounded with a high stone wall. H. M.'s 34th
Regiment commenced its march from Bellary to Bangalore on the 17th of September, no well-
marked case of cholera having then occurred in the Regiment. One man was attacked on the follow-
ing day, but no case occurred on the 19th and 20th ; twenty-eight men of the Corps were attacked
on the 21st, twenty-four on the 22nd, twelve on the 23rd. From the 23rd the disease continued to
decline rapidly, and after the 29th no case occurred. Of about 700 men ninety-one were attacked,
and of this number thirty-seven died. The disease did not exist in any of the villages on the route
when the Corps passed, but it soon afterwards appeared in all of them. Bellary suffered another
attack of the disease about the beginning of May 1819.
Hurryhur.
It appeared at Hurryhur on the 12th of September, and continued to
prevail in it and the neighbouring villages till about the end of the month.
Chittledroog.
At Chittledroog the first case was observed about the middle of September, but until the end of
October only a very few slight cases had occurred. From the 1st to the
15th of November the attacks were pretty numerous and frequently of fatal
termination. During the remainder of November a case occasionally presented itself.
Bangalore.
At Bangalore a few cases of the disease presented themselves towards the end of October and
during November, but it did not at any time prevail generally at this station.
H. M.'s 69th Regiment commenced its march from Bangalore to Cannanore
on the 12th of October, no case of cholera having then occurred at the former place. On the 20th,
while encamped in the vicinity of Madoor river, two men of a detachment of Native Soldiers accom-
panying the Regiment were attacked by cholera. No European, however, experienced an attack until
the 24th. This disease was pretty frequent in the Corps from the 28th until the 13th of November.
The weather had been generally rainy since the commencement of the march, and when
cholera appeared, the vicissitudes of the weather were sadden, and the camp was nightly deluged
with rain. The Corps arrived at Cannanore on the 18th of November. From the 12th, when the
march was commenced, until the 28th of October, dysentery was the most prevalent disease, but
from the latter date until the 13th November cholera maintained the ascendency. After that period
till the 24th of November dysentery was again predominant, but from the 24th until the 3rd of
December intermittent fever, which had previously been rare, was the prevailing disease. No case
of cholera had occurred during the last interval. The intermittent was of the quotidian typo, only
two cases of remittent occurred. After the 3rd of December dysentery regained the ascendency.
Hepatitis also became more frequent.
Seringapatam.
Mysore.
At Seringapatam it appeared about the 6th of November 1818, and continued to prevail very
generally about a month. It followed nearly the same course at the town,
Mysore, and in the intervening and adjacent country. No authentic state-
ment of the number of inhabitants who suffered from this disease has been
received ; but, if common reports are entitled to any credit, the mortality
must have been much greater here than in any other part of the country. The people, it is said,
convinced that the disease was a visitation of the displeasure of one of their gods, were more anxious
to propitiate the offended Deity than to apply for medical aid, which was freely offered to them.
They flocked to the temples of their gods, and deluged the altars with the blood of numberless goats,
rams, and buffaloes, and, having offered the head of the victim, they generally retired to regale
themselves with the consecrated carcass. It is said that, in many instances, having overcharged