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There is no history of these persons having been in recent contact with travellers,
though pilgrims were at the time passing through the town on their way to
Tripatty.
Oufbreak in Vencata-
gherry, Palmanair, and
Tripatty on the same
date.
109. The death registers show that on nearly the same date that cholera
broke out in Chittoor, deaths occurred in the north-east of the
district, in the Zemindary town of Vencatagherry, at, Pal-
manair, on the south-eastern edge of the Mysore table-land,
and at Tripatty where pilsrrims were assembling for high
festival. These several places lie wide apart, and the outbreak occurring precisely
at the same time in them seems to prove that the cholera was a cholera of repro-
' duction, brought into life again, in all probability, by the spring rains then
falling irregularly over the hilly tracts of the district. At Tripatty the Police
Tripatty festival.
reported thirty-four deaths occurring between the 3rd and
5th of May, but the information regarding the actual out-break
at this station is meagre and unsatisfactory. The Superintendent of Police of the
district was absent, and his locum tenens could give no information of any value.
Yet it is a fact well known to the Railway authorities that cholera appeared
there in a very virulent form, and that the people rapidly dispersed during
the " Gunga Jathra" festival, which lasted from the 5th to the 11th May. The
Conjeeveram feast
following close upon
Tripatty feast. Move-
ment of pilgrims by
railway and road.
great feast of Conjeeveram in the Madras (Chingleput) District,
a town in direct railway communication with Tripatty, began
on the 11th of May and continued for ten days, and the
Tripatty pilgrims went in large numbers direct from the latter
to the former town, many by rail, and many also by the ordinary roads. The
Superintendent of Police observes, " since the dispersion of the pilgrims from
Tripatty, cholera has been rife along the road from Tripatty towards Madras,
cases having been reported from Vadamulpett, (Narnaveram) Puttoor, Naggery,
and Trittany."
It may be well, before going any further, to examine the dates of the first
cholera deaths in these places :—
Puttoor (on the railway) ...
Naggery
Trittanny
Vadamulpett.
Narnaveram..
Vellore
Punganoor...
May 6th
do. 21st
do. 21st
do. 22nd
do. 22nd
do. 29th
do. 31st
It is evident from these dates that the towns on high roads leading to Madras,
and other places, were slowly affected, long after a body of cholera had been
taken on to Conjeeveram by the pilgrims travelling by rail. Cholera, as has
already been stated, was smouldering in villages of the North Arcot District all
through the early months of the year, when it broke out with virulence in the
month of May. In Chittoor, Palamanair, and Venkatagherry, where it appeared
at precisely the same time as at Tripatty, it had no long continuance; at Chittoor
deaths occurred on the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 11th, and 12th of May; at Venkatagerry
on the 2nd and 3rd May ; and at Palamanair on the 3rd May only.
At Tripatty the revitalised cholera found in the assembling pilgrims a nidus
for further ravages, which was apparently wanting elsewhere in the district, for
97
it was from this centre that a virulent cholera proceeded along the high road
towards Conjeeveram, and possibly in other directions also, if it were possible to
get at the facts.
110. It will be observed from the district table that the cholera mortality of
North Arcot went up from a total of ninety-nine deaths in April, to 935 in May,
but the best mode of showing the progress of this revived cholera on a large scale
will be to give the deaths in North Arcot and adjoining districts for the several
months of the year.
Districts.
Population
January
February
March ...
April
May
...
June
July
August ...
September
October
November
December
Total...
North Arcot.
1,780,616
Chingleput
( Madras
District.)
804,283
Cholera Deaths
83
102
98
99
935
899
334
389
176
113
227
140
3,595
117
54
8
16
287
551
152
72
63
35
19
20
1,394
Madras City.
450,000
37
15
9
48
79
391
113
121
20
22
3
3
861
Nellore.
11,68,664
141
180
112
9
• •
10
27
20
76
20
14
4
613
Salem.
16,19,233
560
443
271
215
126
206
567
521
172
69
40
319
3,509
The figures show that the reproduction of cholera in the North Arcot District
was apparently aggravated by the dispersion of pilgrims, and that the neigh-
bouring districts became affected by this reproduced cholera at a later date than
North Arcot. It is evident that cholera, which had never completely died out
from the 18G9 invasion, first showed itself in strength in the month of May, in
the North Arcot District, and that it attained its maximum of intensity in the
Chingleput and Madras districts in the following month, viz., June, and in
Salem, to the westward, a month later, or in July. It is worthy of remark also
that the reproduced epidemic never reached Nellore District in any force.
During the greatest intensity of cholera in North Arcot (May) there was not a
single death from it in the Nellore District,. and in the following months the
Cuddapah District
slightly affected only
by pilgrim dispersion.
deaths were insignificant. The railway and high road bring
the Cuddapah District also into direct contact with the
infected centre of Tripatty, and it is curious to observe how
little the cholera influence was felt in that district. The few deaths, it may be
noted, occurred chiefly in the talooks through which the line of railway passes,
or adjoining the eastern border of the Mysore Country.
District.
Cuddapah
Population.
1,144,759
January.
February.
March
April.
May.
31
June.
50
July.
29
August.
10
September.
8
October.
6
November.
...
December.
Total.
134
102
MR. Overbury's Table of Cholera in Tripatore Talook with dates of outbreak.
Talooks.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
Villages.
Tripatore
Keel Kuppum.
Naravinthampatti.
Nallapatharampatti.
Kandalli.
Param Pett.
Bomwa Kuppum.
Chinnarapett.
Total...
Paparapatti.
Kottapadi.
Yelavadi.
Kunnathur.
Kudulpatti.
Chinnagundanoor.
Kullani.
Kaudagundanoor.
Nariganoor.
Utengerry.
Poodoor.
Appinaikunipatti.
Chinna Coonathur.
Motur.
Atiniseeanipatti.
Tadampatti, near Haroor.
Terunanumpatti.
Total...
NUMBER OF PERSONS THAT
Attacked.
167 '
24
2
1
9
1
5
20
229
3
7
3
13
1
1
1
1
2
1
4
4
2
2
1
2
20
68
Recovered.
105
20
1
2
"9
137
2
5
"7
1
...
1
1
3
3
1
1
1
2
7
35
Died.
62
4
1
1
7
1
5
11
92
1
2
3
6
1
1
1
1
1
1
13
33
Date of first attack.
26th June 1870.
16th July 1870.
Do.
Do.
Do.
18th do.
20th
do.
Do.
20th July 1870.
23rd
do.
24th
do.
26th
do.
3rd Aug. 1870.
4th
do.
5th
do.
3rd
do.
10th
do.
11th
do.
15th
do.
15th
do.
23rd
do.
29th
do.
Do.
Do.
13th Sept. 1870.
CHOLERA IN SALEM DISTRICT.
116. In the special cholera report for 1869, I showed that an invasion of the
district had occurred from the eastward, consequent on the dispersion of
affected pilgrims from Tripatty, in September 1869, and that both Salem and
Coimbatore had apparently been affected by railway travellers, the earlier cases
having, in both instances, occurred at the railway stations. At the end of 1869
cholera was mostly localised in the Salem Talook, but prevailing also in Kistna-
gherry and Trichengode Talooks. During the early months of 1870, there was
considerable prevalence, but by April and May it had considerably abated, except
Cholera in the higher in the Salem Talook. The month of June witnessed an
talooks
increased development of cholera, especially in the higher
lands of the district, forming a portion of the Mysore plateau. Cholera at the same
time was increasing in the adjoining districts of the province of Mysore. In July a
large increase of mortality took place in the Tripatore, Kistnagherry, and Oossoor
Talooks, and this local development of cholera must be considered in relation to
Mr. Overbury's narrative of the westward extension of the outbreaks amongst the
Tripatty and Conjeeveram pilgrims.
Cholera generally abated in the district
in September ; at the end of the year it was prevailing with force only in the
Namcul Talook, which up to December had hardly been affected at all.
The annexed tables give all the particulars as to the affection of the several
talooks of the district, and the chief point of interest is the very local character
of the epidemic throughout the year, the intensity varying in each talook, not
so much in accordance with any general seasonal peculiarity, as has been
observed in regard to some other districts,
Table showing particulars of Cholera Deaths in each Municipal Town and Talook of the Salem District during each month of the year 1870.
Population
Total No. of Villages
in each Circle
Months.
January ...
February ...
March ...
April
May
Jnne
July
August...
September...
October ...
November...
December...
Total ...
Kistnagherry
Talook,
N· of District.
132,515
750
No. of Villages affected.
23
22
14
8
8
40
17
4
6
3
6
-
Population of affected
Villages.
14,094
14,215
4,244
2,076
3,126
17,369
8,676
5,384
6,175
3,020
4,259
---
Cholera Deaths.
95
63
67
13
28
128
68
29
24
8
18
541
Tripatore
Talcok,
N.E. of
District.
151,845
485
No. of Villages affected. I
4
17
3
1
14
42
31
11
7
...
4
-
Population of affected
Villages.
6,031
13,898
3 054
491
18 414
16,507
30,092
35,674
13,774
8 774
...
7.452
----
Cholera Deaths.
43
105
5
1
13
30
258
102
20
13
...
8
598
Uttengherry
Talook,
E. of District.
127,084
680
¤
NO.of Villages affected.
...
1
6
4
2
5
11
4
...
3
2
-
Population of affected
Villages.
...
620
3 982
3,283
1,404
1,110
3,635
5,948
2,115
...
572
1,443
Cholera l·eatbs.
...
1
11
8
6
15
8
26
35
...
8
16
34
Ahtoor
Talook,
S. E. of
Distrie..
126,814
309
No. of Villages affected.
9
12
22
4
1
4
17
10
...
...
7
-
Population of affected
Villages.
18,293
17,900
31,881
4,992
5,046
893
3,488
20,111
15,183
...
...
13,706
----
Cholera Deaths.
28
41
47
5
19
1
12
38
16
...
...
35
235
S
Namcul
Talook,
of District.
222,784
724
No. of Villages affected.
8
1
1
6
2
1
5
9
6
8
5
36
—
Population of affected
Villages,
5,556
378
2,372
3,559
5,110
179
4,026
9,316
3,380
8 679
4,244
37,536
Cholera Deaths.
24
1
1
48
2
1
5
14
11
9
.14
230
360
Trichengode
Talook,
S. W. of District.
209,803
588
No. of Villages affected.
36
20
10
7
2
2
24
14
6
l
l
—
Population of affected
Villages.
21,098
19,398
8,448
4,954
1 613
2,042
8,360
11,534
2,197
602
628
-----
Cholera Deaths.
97
43
19
19
8
2
76
26
12
2
1
305
Salem Municipal
Town,
W. of Talook.
33,0/2
Population of affected
Villages.
33,072
----------
Cholera Deaths.
30
13
2
...
15
...
18
19
1
...
...
98
Salem Talook,
W. of District.
284,712
707
No. of Villages affected.
70
42
28
19
19
18
7
60
13
5
...
4
—
Population of affected
Villages.
66,444
35,571
28,299
13,639
17,316
8,676
3,816
66,153
10,122
2,903
...
2,740
--------
Cholera Deaths.
238
132
80
64
78
62
10
120
23
10
...
5
822
Dharmapoory
Talook,
W. of District
161,067
933
No. of Villages affected.
...
7
19
8
3
5
6
3
5
1
2
3
Population of Villages
affected.
...
11,069
11,748
5,666
895
3,370
8,696
2,483
6,300
327
1,284
1,094
Cholera Deaths.
...
24
30
30
5
16
9
15
9
1
8
6
153
Oossoor Talook,
N. W. of District.
169,537
1,820
No. of Villages affected.
5
3
8
2
1
17
25
7
2
...
...
...
—
Population' of affected
Villages.
1,338
1,900
1,504
1,918
329
8,388
14,032
2 152
1,613
...
...
...
Cholera Deaths.
5
20
9
27
2
53
117
43
2
...
...
...
278
103
107
of dry cereals, cotton, tobacco, oil seeds, and pulses. Trees, except immediately
under the mountain ranges, are scarce and stunted. The red and black soils are
poor and thin. The cultivation is largely carried on by the aid of garden wells,
sunk to a great depth through disintegrating gniess or schistose rocks. The
well waters of the district are generally hard, and contain nitrates of lime and
magnesia, in excess. The atmosphere is cooled and moistened by the south-west
monsoon, though but little rain falls in the months of its prevalence. The average
rainfall at Coimbatore is less than twenty inches in the year. In this district the
cotton plant is cultivated with success. Sheep and cattle thrive well on the
scanty herbage, and the climate is generally dry and healthful. In the moun-
tainous tracts, and in forest belts between the mountains only, is the district
markedly malarious. At long intervals of years, after unusual rainfall and inunda-
tion, the district has been known to be severely visited by fever. A great wave
of malaria passed over it, and the adjoining Madura and Tinnevelly Districts, in
1809, 1810, and 1811, after a remarkable flooding of the country.
In this Coimbatore District, as before stated, cholera rarely advances during
the years of a primary invasion. When the disease is very rife on the Pal ghaut
side of the mountains, it advances up the gap in the mountain chain (the high-
way of rail and road traffic), and when the Mysore plateau is invaded by cholera,
it overflows down the northern talooks of the district, but, I think, the more gene-
ral course of invasion is by an ebbing, as it were, of the cholera wave attacking
the southern districts of Trichinopoly and Madura, where the physical obstacles
the progress of cholera are fewer. This at any rate was the general progress
of cholera during 1870, the outbreak at Pulney in March, and in other parts
of the Madura district in August, being sensibly felt in the adjoining parts
of Coimbatore. The district had been almost free of cholera in 1869, when
an outbreak occurred at the Railway station in September and October, clearly
traceable to importation by pilgrims from the eastward.
Slight prevalence of
cholera in Coimbatore
District.
123. Cholera had but a very limited prevalence in the district in 1870. It
hardly extended at all to the Collegal Talook, which adjoins the
Mysore country, and forms a portion of the Mysore plateau.
The following tables will show the distribution and ratios of cholera mortality to
population :—
E E
A.
Table· shorcing the Deaths from Cholera in each Talook &·c., of the District of Coimbatore, during each month of the year 1870.
Coimbatore.
Population
Total number of Vil-
lages in each Circle
Months.
January ...
February...
March...
April...
May...
Juue...
July...
August...
September...
October ...
...
November...
...
December...
Total...
Collegal
Talook.
58,851
475
NO.of Villages affected.
...
1
...
1
...
...
1
...
...
2
...i
1
Population of affected
Villages.
...
1,629
...
487
...
...
2,081
...
...
652
...
722
—
Cholera Deaths
...
...
...
1
...
...
1
...
...
3
...
1
7
Sattimunga-
lum
Talook.
140,161
884
NO.of Villages affected.
3
3
9
13
...
...
1
1
3
6
2
...
Population of affected
Villages.
1,502
4,501
16,707
13,566
...
...
5,140
1,177
9,273
11,695
6,010
...
-----
Cholera Deaths.
11
7
19
28
...
...
1
1
4
12
3
...
86
No.of Villages affected
1
1
14
11
2
1
3
4
10
16
14
7
Preiudorai
Talook.
181,008
1416
Population of affected
Villages.
2,631
1,155
29,294
15,178
1,226
3,408
5,477
3,356
17,367
22,746
14,610
12,485
Cholera Deaths.
2
7
36
37
6
1
3
8
33
71
70
22
296
Municipal
Town
Coimbatore.
25,324
...
NO.of Villages affec-
ted
Population of affected
Villages.
25,324
— —
Cholcra Deaths.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
2
...
3
...
5
Coimbatore
Talook.
168,661
732
No.of Villages affected.
...
1
...
2
1
...
1
4
9
...
8
Population of affected
Villages.
...
623
...
1,632
2,703
...
671
5,820
18,671
16,789
21,737
17,104
------
Cholera Deaths.
...
12
...
16
1
...
1
8
82
15
102
58
295
Palladum
Talook.
202,583
945
No.of Villages affected.
...
...
4
3
3
...
...
1
17
46
17
13
Population of affected
Villages.
...
...
8,842
7,368
2,861
...
...
1,034
32,847
71,180
28,247
23,113
-----
Cholera Deaths.
...
...
4
5
13
...
...
1
41
270
78
68
180
Caroor
Talook.
137,536
822
NO.of Villages affected.
...
1
8
9
6
1
...
...
6
15
12
17
Populations of affected
Villages.
...
2,187
17,733
23,991
11,109
3,087
...
...
12,128
39,496
29,830
21,219
Cholera Deaths.
...
1
35
52
23
1
...
...
20
69
29
64
294
Dharapooram
Talook,
174,662
1,053
No.of Villages affected.
1
3
18
12
6
...
3
2
5
16
17
9
Populations of affected
Villages.
2,487
7,399
48,333
28,237
17,401
...
10,331
6,511
11,676
38,513
37,416
20,640
-----
Cholera Deaths.
10
27
78
44
17
...
4
2
16
105
80
44
127
Pollachy
Talook.
133,234
401
No. of Villages affected
1
6
3
...
1
...
5
7
11
9
6
Population of affected
Villages.
3,050
9,830
3,761
...
1,556
...
6,171
15,213
8,063
9,244
8,731
-----
Cholera Deaths.
1
15
6
...
1
...
37
61
32
65
15
233
Oodoomala
Pettah
Talook.
97,531
275
No.of Villages affected.
8
2
1
3
...
1
2
1
4
3
2
Population of affected
Villages.
11,822
3,694
3,627
3,533
...
...
l,829
4,746
8S0
5,066
5,844
5,665
Cholera Deaths.
57
3
2
4
...
...
1
3
2
43
16
8
139
Bhowany
Talook.
74,031
488
No.of Villages affected.
1
6
2
...
...
1
4
...
1
1
...
2
Population of affected
Villages.
3,401
13,296
5,073
...
671
3,369
...
4,595
944
...
5,842
----
Cholera Deaths.
2
38
2
...
2
7
...
3
3
...
4
61
108
113
and the last on the 24th October 1866. During this period eighteen persons
were attacked, and of these eight recovered."
Ootacamund.—Mr. Furnell, the Medical Officer, reports the extension of
the October cholera at the Catholic festival in the plains, to Ootacamund, as
follows :—
" During the month of October, a Roman Catholic festival takes place at
Kurmathanputty near Coimbatore, and numbers of devotees from these hills
and the surrounding districts flock to the spot. An epidemic of cholera it seems
made its appearance amongst the crowd assembled, and the people composing
it immediately fled to return home. Many people {eight) were brought into
Ootacamund in doolies or muncheels suffering from cholera, and were seen by
the Dresser and myself. Most of these recovered, and so rapidly that many
entertained doubts whether they had been cholera cases at all. However, the
sister of one young man who had been brought in from the low country, and who had
nursed the brother in his attack, from which he recovered, was seised with unmistakable
cholera and expired. She had not been out of Ootacamund. A neighbour also, a woman,
and who had not been to the low country, was seized and died. Having thus shown
its communicability the cholera stopped. Since then there have been one or two
cases, one notably in a horse-keeper of the Livery Stablekeeper here, but of
whose history, as to whether he had been out of Ootacamund or not, I could
obtain no reliable information. There were twelve cases and six deaths in the
Civil Dispensary."
A boy in the Lawrence Asylum was attacked with cholera on the 9th
December in this year, and recovered. There is nothing to show whether the lad
had been out of the station or not before the attack. This was the last case of
the outbreak in Ootacamund.
1867.
1868.
1869.
Coonoor.—" No cholera in 1867."
Ootacamund.—" No cholera."
Coonoor.—" No cholera in 1868."
Ootacamund.—"No
cholera."
Coonoor.—" No cholera in 1869."
Ootacamund.—" No cholera."
1870.
There was no case of cholera anywhere on the Hills in 1870.
131. These then are the facts in regard to cholera, of late years, on the Neil-
gherry Hills. For convenience, I exhibit them in the following tabular form :—
Talla showing Cholera on the Neilgherry Hills from 1859 to 1870.
Years.
1859
1860
1861 ...
1862 ...
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
1870 .
Ootacamund.
A.
1
2
3
2
3
2
1
13
D.
2
2
1
2
1
6
Im-
ported
1
1
3
1
3
?
1
10
Not im-
ported.
1?
1b
?c
3d
A.
3
5
5
18
Coonoor.
D.
3
4
10
Im-
ported.
?
5
5
18
Not im-
ported.
European Troops, Welling-
ton, Military Station.
A.
2
2
1
D.
1
Im-
ported .
2
2
1
Not im-
ported.
...
Remarks.
a. No history.
b. Case wrong-
ly entered as
cholera.
c. No history.
d. Two cases
occurred in
friends of the
sick, of the
tory is re-
corded.
Return showing the Number of Patients treated for Cholera and Choleraic Diarrhoea in the Detachment 45th Regiment from 6th to 19th March 1870, Gamp Red Hills (Station)
20th March 1870.
Date.
March
6th
6th
9th
9th
9th
Rank.
Pte.
,,
»
Name.
John Lewis...
Francis Scalling
Jas. Bradbury
Ch. Taylor
J. Doyle
DISEASE.
Cholera.
yes.
yes,
yes.
yes.
yes.
Age.
33
31
29
28
27
Company
F.
F.
F.
F.
G.
Previous health
Good.
Fair.
Good.
do.
Fair.
Habits
Temp.
do.
do.
do.
do.
Period of Service India
112
Whether Married or Single.
s.
s.
s.
s.
s.
Hour of Admission.
11 A.M.
7-30 P.M.
6-30 A.M.
6 A.M.
1-30 A.M.
How long previously suffer-
ing from symptoms of
disease.
12 hours.
3 do.
2 do.
2 days.
2 hours.
WHENCE AD-
MITTED.
Barrack No.
Hospital and cause of original admission.
...
...
Camp.
yes.
yes.
yes.
yes.
yes.
SYMPTOMS ON
Vomiting of characteristic discharge.
Vomiting
characteris-
tic.
Biilons.
yes.
yes.
yes.
Rice water stools
yes.
yes.
yes.
yes.
ADMISSION
Cramp.
yes.
yes.
yes.
yes.
Collapses
—
•
yes.
yes.
Suppression of Urine.
yes.
yes.
yes.
yes.
i
Instage of collapse
yes.
yes.
RESULT.
In stage of re- action
...
How long after admission.
11-3.70
11.3.70
Recovered and Date
March.
19th
19th
...
19th
Remaining
Remarks.
This man's disease
changed to general
debility 19-3-70.
Discharged from Hos-
pital, 19-3.70.
Died at 11-25 A.M.
This man's disease
changed to general
debility 19-3-70.
Died 7-50 P.M.
117
119
day of the high wind, 0.04 inches of rain fell. Ozone registered on the 28th, 7.0.
On 1st March the velocity of the wind fell to 115 miles in the twenty-four hours,
and the direction had changed to nearly due east. 1.72 inches of rain fell in the
Unusual rainfall.
morning. A most unusual thing is the occurrence of rain in
Madras in February, or early in the month of March. On the
2nd, 3rd, and 4th of March, the velocity of the wind had fallen to 92, 64, and 82
miles, respectively, in the twenty-four hours, the direction being north-east by
east, or east by north. Ozone which had marked 7.0 on the 28th February fell
as follows on the following days :—
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
March
,,
...
,,
,,
... 4.5
... 2.0
... 3.8
... 3.0
Local.
Overcrowding.
143. The barrack-rooms were thought to be overcrowded at the date of the
outbreak on the 2nd of March. From a statement appended,
it will be seen that barracks D. and K., which yielded almost
the whole of the cases, had actually less than their regulation complement
of men. The D. barrack gives space for 64 men, and had only 59 in it ; the K.
barrack holds 64, but had only 56 inmates ; the M. barrack, in which the first case
occurring in barracks happened, was rather overcrowded at the time. It accom-
modated 62 men, and 67, or 5 beyond the regulation number, were sleeping in
it the night before the outbreak. On the other hand the B. barrack, which has
accommodation for 78 men only, although occupied by 101 men, had no case
of cholera.
Of nine barrack-rooms which had fewer men than the regulations allow,
cholera occurred in two rooms, and the epidemic was chiefly confined to them.
Of four rooms actually overcrowded, according to regulation, cholera occurred
but in one, and in that case only a single person was attacked.
ACCOMMODATION AND CROWDING.
H. M.'s 45TH REGIMENT.
Allotment and Occupation of Barracks on 1st March 1870.
Room or Bange.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
J
K
L
M
1ST
O
R
Cubic Feet
Space.
50,653
120,108
63,690
88,640
89,773
12,200
49,546
64,584
30,720
58,952
120,320
77,64.7
11,239
22,984
6,480
Space in
Superficial
Area.
3,307
7,081
3,440
5,795
5,721
784
2,674
4,905
2,093
5,818
7,110
5,580
780
1,812
735
Total...
For what
number of
men allotted.
36
78
38
64
67
8
29
54
23
64
78
62
8
20
8
637
Number of
men
occupying.
28
101
44
59
68
8
26
37
None.
56
72
67
8
17
None.
591
Remarks.
Overcrowded.
Do.
Overcrowded.
Theatre.
Overcrowded, a case of
cholera occurred in
this barrack-room.
Theatre.
144- As regards the influence of sleeping on the ground floor, or above the
level of the earth, seven of the cases (including the case of 10th February and
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