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their stomachs with this food, they, the same night, experienced a fatal attack of the disease. The
performance of their superstitious rites subjected them to unusual fatigue, and exposed them to
the vicissitudes of the climate at the season when these were most frequent and most violent. These
causes, to which the extraordinary mortality has been ascribed, must have had considerable influence,
but it would be interesting to investigate whether the climate of these places, which is notorious for
fevers, might not have had some share in aggravating the calamity.
Manantoddy.
At Manantoddy in Wynaad about thirty cases occurred from the 16th to the 22nd October
1818. The weather during these days was cloudy, and a strong, cold easterly
wind prevailed.
Coimbatore.
It commenced its course in the district of Coimbatore towards the end of November 1818, and
soon became very prevalent and destructive in the villages situated in the
vicinity of the Cauvery river, particularly in Erode and Caroor. It reached
Coimbatore on the 80th of November, it declined in December, and had almost disappeared by the
end of January 1819,
Cholera attacked the Mysore Horse on the 8th of July while on the bank of the Grodavery river,
on the route to Hyderabad, and it continued to prevail in the Corps until towards the end of that
month.
Hyderabad.
At Hyderabad it appeared towards the end of July, bub it was not so prevalent nor so violent
here as at the greater number of other stations. The cantonment enjoyed
an immunity for many days after the disease had become prevalent at the
Residency, a distance of about five miles, and those first attacked were soldiers who had returned
from duty at the Residency.
It prevailed also several days in the market place, called Begum Bazaar, before it reached the
city of Hyderabad, although these places are separated only by a small river. Many cases occurred
in the cantonment at different periods subsequently to this attack, but the disease did not afterwards
become general. The circumstances of one of these subsequent manifestations seem sufficiently
interesting to require a more minute statement. A detachment of Europeans, in which cholera was
prevalent, arrived at this place early in May 1819 and was encamped about two hundred yards in
front of the quarters occupied by the Artillery, The disease did not at this time exist in the canton-
ments, but three or four days afterwards it appeared in the party of Artillery, five or six men of
which soon suffered a severe, though not in any instance, a fatal attack. The wife of a Conductor of
Artillery next became a subject of the disease, and a female friend who attended her for two hours
was also attacked, and died next morning. The son of this woman, aged six years, suffered an attack
the day after the death of his mother ; he recovered. One Assistant and two Sub-Assistant Surgeons,
who had spent much time with the sick, were attacked, and one of the latter died. The disease
soon appeared in the market places, in which it proved fatal to several Natives. Few cases occurred
in the Native Corps stationed at this place, and H. M.'s 30th Regiment, which was in barracks about
half a mile to the right, entirely escaped the disease. The detachment, which had marched from
Madras, was attacked with cholera at the river Kistna, after exposure to a severe storm of wind and
rain, and it continued to infest them on the route to Seounderabad. The villages on the road were,
at this time, free of the disease ; but a Medical Officer, who travelled by the same road from the
Kistna to Secunderabad about two weeks afterwards, found it prevailing in every village. The
inhabitants asserted that it had commenced after the passage of the detachment, which, they believed,
had communicated it to them.
Ghooty.
It first appeared at Ghooty on the 6th of October 1818, and cases occurred occasionally until the.
beginning of February 1819. It does not seem, however, to have been prevalent
at that place. The 2nd Battalion 16th Regiment Native Infantry stationed
at Ghooty, as well as the inhabitants of the place, experienced a very fatal attack of cholera in February
1820. It appeared on the 2nd of the month, immediately after the departure of the 1st Battalion
16th Regiment, in which it had proved very destructive during the march from Hyderabad, and in
which it prevailed during a halt of three days at this place. It declined on the 20th, and was of rare
occurrence after the end of the month. Early in March, however, it began to affect the inhabitants
of the neighbouring villages. Of 101 cases among the men of the 2nd Battalion 16th Regiment
admitted into Hospital during February, seventy-five terminated fatally. No case had occurred at
this place during the six preceding months. It was observed that a great number of the attendants
of the sick were attacked, and that generally when one case occurred in a family, several members of
that family became subsequently, and often almost immediately, affected.
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