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Cuddalore.
The cholera continued its progresssive course along the coast ; but we have no accurate accounts
of the dates of its appearance or decline at Sadras or Pondicherry. It first manifested itself at
Cuddalore about the 14th of November after the commencement of the
heavy rains, and continued to prevail with considerable violence till the end
of December. At this time it declined rapidly and soon afterwards disappeared.
Combaconum.
At Combaconum it appeared about the 20th of November, declined about the middle of Decem-
ber, and soon afterwards terminated ; about the middle of January it was
for two or three days nearly as prevalent as it had formerly been.
Nagore.
It began to prevail at Nagore about the 10th of November, principally among the caste of Natives
whose occupations obliged them to expose themselves much to the weather,
which was then damp and rainy.
Negapatam.
Negapatam, although distant from Nagore only four miles, continued entirely free of the disease
until the 22nd of November. It was much on the decline at both places
before the 20th of December. As at Combaconum it was again very preva-
lent at these places for two or three days about the middle of January. It re-appeared at both towns
about the end of July 1819, and continued prevalent until the middle of August. At Nagoro it again
showed itself about the end of October, and prevailed until the middle of the following month ; and
at Negapatam several cases occurred from the 1st to the 13th of February 1820.
Having thus traced the progress of this disease along the Eastern Coast as far as it might be
supposed to be connected with its first appearance at Granjam, it will now be necessary to give some
account of its course along the inland stations occupied by troops of this Presidency. Here also we
shall begin with the most northerly of these, which was likewise the first that became subjected to
its influence.
Nagpore, Central Pro-
vinces.
It began to prevail among the inhabitants of Nagpore and the neighbouring villages about the
middle of May 1818 ; but, although generally diffused and productive of great
mortality among the citizens, with whom our Native Soldiery had frequent and
intimate intercourse, no case of it appeared in the troops until the 26th or 27th of May. At this
time three or four men of the Depot Corps were attacked and died. On the 30th of May a large
detachment of Bengal and Madras troops arrived at Nagpore from the siege of Chandah, and took
possession of the huts near the Seetabuldee hills, which they had formerly occupied. Notwithstand-
ing the excessive heat of the weather and the laborious duties of the siege, they had hitherto been
tolerably healthy, and no one had suffered an attack of the cholera. Scarcely, however, had they
taken possession of their quarters, when it appeared in a very violent form among the Bengal troops
and their followers.
Of the Madras troops only one individual was this day attacked. On the 31st, however, it attacked
them and their followers in a very violent manner, the majority of those this day attacked having
died. On the 1st of June the attacks were very numerous, but the deaths were proportionately
much fewer. From the 2nd it began to decline rapidly ; and after the 10th rarely occurred.
For some days it was confined to the troops who had returned from the campaign ; and when it did
appear in those who had not left Nagpore, it was comparatively mild and partial. The European
part of the troops suffered but little, A few of the Madras Artillerymen were attacked, but they all
recovered. Three or four men of the Bengal Artillery fell victims to it. In a detachment of the
force recently employed at Chandah, which was left at Hingunghat, 50 miles south of Nagpore, it
appeared at the same time and followed the same course, as it did in the main body of the force at
the latter place.
Jaulnah.
At Jaulnah cases were first observed on the 3rd of July among the families of our Native Soldiery
in the village. On the following day it attacked the troops, both European
and Native, and from this time until the 11th it continued very prevalent
and violent. After the latter period the attacks were milder and less frequent. Several facts
connected with the origin and progress of the disease at this place having been adduced in proof of
its contagious nature, it may be deemed necessary here to notice them. Since the middle of June,
when several heavy showers of rain had fallen, the weather had been cool and pleasant, the ther-
mometer ranging from 80° to 86°, seldom varying more than 4° in twenty-four hours.
The atmo-
sphere was generally cloudy, and the wind blew steadily from the south-west. This kind of weather
continued during the prevalence of the disease. A detachment, which had left Nagpore while the
disease was prevailing at that place, and of which men suffered an attack of it in the march, arrived
at Jaulnah towards the end of June. On the 3rd of July the cholera, as has been seen, appeared at