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the latter place. The Russel Brigade arrived at Jaulnah on the 4th, and left it for Hyderabad on
the 5th of July without any case of the disease having appeared among them, but a few days after-
wards it attacked them and produced great mortality. A party of gentlemen with about 1,000
followers arrived at Jaulnah on the 4th, and left it in good health on the 6th. Before they arrived
at Arungabad, however, many of their followers were attacked by the cholera, and it began to prevail
at that place soon after their arrival. The disease was most prevalent in the vicinity of the place
where the first case occurred. H. M.'s Royal Scots, who were stationed immediately in the front of the
general market place, in which the disease raged, and with which they had constant communication,
suffered much by it, while the Horse Artillerymen, who were a considerable way in front, and had
less direct communication with the market place, and but little intercourse with the Royals, suffered
comparatively very little. This fact, however, has been ascribed to another cause. The Artillery men
lived in tents, and the Royals in old and uncomfortable barracks. The latter were removed into
their tents, and the cases, the day on which this removal was effected, were only one-third of the
number that had occurred on the preceding day. The disease continued to decline after this period,
When it appeared in a family, several individuals of that family generally suffered an attack. An
endeavour will be made, in the proper place, to appreciate these arguments.
Nusseerabad.
It appeared on the 14th of July in Lieutenant-Colonel Heath's detachment encamped in the
neighbourhood of Nusseerabad, south of the Taptee river, and among the
inhabitants of the surrounding country.
Malligaum.
In Lieutenant-Colonel MacDowall's Camp near Malligaum in Kandeish it appeared among the
camp-followers on the 13th of July. It attacked some men of the Madras
European Regiment on the 16th, and from this day until the 23rd the cases
in that Corps were numerous and very violent. After the latter period the severity and frequency of
the attacks were diminished. Several violent cases, however, occurred during August. A considera-
ble number of people, who had left Jaulnah during the prevalence of the disease, and some of whom
were attacked on the way, arrived in the camp before any case had occurred in it. The 17th Regiment
of Native Infantry, which composed part of this force, and its followers entirely escaped the disease.
Over the ground of its encampment, which was situated between two hills, a strong current of air is
said to have then constantly blown. The European Regiment was encamped on lower and more con-
fined ground, and when the cholera declined, a malignant bilious remittent fever became very preva-
lent in the Corps.
Nusseerabad is about eighty miles N. N. W. from Jaulnah, measuring in a straight line on the
map, and Malligaum is about 100 miles from it in a W. N. W. direction. We have seen that the
epidemic appeared at both these places in ten or eleven days from the date of its appearance at Jaul-
nah. These detachments had direct communication with the force at Jaulnah, and they present almost
the only exceptions to the uniform progress of cholera in a southerly course on this side of India. In Sir
John Malcolm's Camp at Mhow cholera is incidentally noticed as having attacked part of the force on
the 16th of July ; but it would seem from the Bengal Report to have first appeared there in the
course of the month of May, its progress being from east to west. Mhow is situated near Indore,
north of the Nerbudda, and is about 120 miles N. by W. from Nusseerabad ; the force was composed
of the troops of different Presidencies. It was independent of that of Jaulnah, and there is no parti-
cular report in this office of the manner in which cholera made its appearance there ; we may conclude,
however, that the attack on the 16th of July was unconnected with the appearance of the disease at
places to the southward of the river Taptee.
Punderpoor.
It began to prevail at Punderpoor on the 14th of July, while crowded by strangers congregated
for the celebration of a great festival. Here, as at other places in similar cir-
cumstances, the mortality it produced was very great. It commenced its
attack on the troops in the vicinity on the 17th, and declined about the 24th of the month.
Hoobly.
In the force encamped near Hoobly in the Dooab, the first case of this epidemic occurred on the
13th of August 1818. Eor some days afterwards it was very partial and
confined to the camp followers. It seems to have appeared at Badamee and
Dharwar nearly at the same time as at the head-quarters of the force. It continued to exist in the
force till about the end of September; but was most prevalent from the 18th of August till the 1st of
September : when it appeared a strong wind prevailed from the south-west with heavy clouds and
rain.* Neither Hoobly nor any of its adjacent villages had at this time become affected, nor had
* I have italicised a few passages relating to the southern progress of this invading cholera against the south.
west monsoon. I would refer the reader to the Scott's Map upon which I have indicated by arrows the course of the
monsoon winds, to satisfy himself that the recently propounded theory that cholera cannot advance against a
monsoon wind, is quite opposed to what atucally occurred in 1818.—W. E. C.