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information be obtained from the patients themselves, or from members of their
family at the time. It will be observed that six cases and four deaths occurred
amongst the Native Troops, five cases with four deaths in the Corps of Sappers
and Miners, and one case, which also died, in the -27th Regiment Native Infan-
try. Other cases occurred amongst the families of the Sappers and Miners.
Neither did the diseases altogether spare the European Troops. Some cases
occurred amongst the men and families, but I have no knowledge of the circum-
stances attending the origin of these cases, as, under the condition of separation
of the two Services, British and Indian, I received no report of them, nor did
it fall within mv Province to inquire into them*
" In regard to the vexed question of propagation of the disease by human
intercourse, or by prevailing currents of wind, as advanced by Dr. Bryden, I
may remark that the progress of the pestilence through the province was
from east to west, and that the prevailing winds from May to October are
westerly, moist, and travel at a high velocity. But it is by no means easy to
dotermine the precise course the disease followed. It is not clear by what route
the disease entered the province. The first death was reported from the Sarja-
pura Talook, on the 25th April. This talook borders the high road to Salem, and
a cross road leads from the Salem high road through Sarjapura to Maloor and
Colar, at the Cusbah town; of which latter talook the next death (May 19th) is
heard of. From this date, which the Superintendent of the Nundidroog Division
considers to be the date of the first death in that division (he apparently had
not been apprised of the deaths in April, ten in number, in the Sarjapura Talook)
the disease began to extend in different directions and to places wide apart.
Thus, on the 24th, a death occurred at Maloor; on the 25th deaths were reported
from Mundium, Chennapatam, and Kingherry Towns to the south-west of Banga-
lore on the high road to Mysore ; on the 27th from Mulwagul, the adjoining talook
to Colar; on the 29th in the Bangalore Talook; on the 31st in the Hoskote
Talook to the north-east of Bangalore.
" From this period the disease established itself in Bangalore, and did not die
out in the talook till the 28th of September. Within this period deaths were
being reported from various parts of the province, and rather later, in October
and November, it extended to the talooks of Periapatam, Narasipura, Manjara-
bad, and Maharajandurga, a steady movement in a westerly direction, the pre-
vailing winds at Bangalore being S. S. E. and E. S. E., veering to the N. E.
But quite in the opposite direction, viz., in the talook of Mulwagul, on the extreme
end of the province, a rather sharp outbreak occurred on the 5th November.
The last death reported was on the 28th November in the Manjarabad Talook.
" The disease, in fact, moved so capriciously, that it is impossible to say
whether it was propagated along the main lines of intercommunication, or by
prevailing winds. The earlier cases certainly appeared to occur in towns
situated upon the main roads. Later in the year, however, it appeared to
extend in the direction of the prevailing currents of air, though it overleapt
several talooks in its way to the western talooks of Narasipura, Maharaja-
durga, and Manjarabad. The extension to Mulwagul, on the 5th November,
was again in the very teeth of the prevailing wind. It was only at Bangalore
* AmoQg3b the Earopaan Troops at the station, there were seven mon and four women attacked. Five of the
former and three of the latter died.—(W. R, C.)