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In the week ending 11th February, five deaths were registered in Madras,
two in Black town, two in Triplicane, and one in the 8th Division. The
mean of cholera deaths of ten corresponding weeks of previous years was thirty-
seven.
First case in Fort,
10th February.
138. On the 10th February, a Sergeant of the 45th Regiment, a married man
living in one of the rooms of the middle storey of the Artillery
Family Barracks, was seized with cholera, and died in a few
hours. He is described as being a delicate man in health, suffering habitually
from offensive breath, so that his comrades spoke of him as being " rotten"
in constitution. This man was attacked on the day when a case of cholera
was admitted into the Monegar Choultry, about a mile and half north-west
of the Fort.
Cholera in Black
Town.
From the 12th to 18th February, five cholera deaths, out of a total of six in
the whole town, are registered as occurring in the 1st Munici-
pal District (near the Fort).
From the 19th to 25th February, only one death was registered from
cholera. This occurred in the 3rd District (away from the Fort). In the week
ending 4th March, there was not a single death amongst the Native population
of the town from cholera.
139. On the 1st March a heavy storm of rain fell over Madras (1·72 inches),
and on the same day a young Bast Indian woman, from a 3rd storied barrack,
was admitted to hospital with diarrhoea and vomiting. The case is reported to
have been suspiciously like cholera : she recovered.
Outbreak in Fort,
2nd March.
On the morning of the 2nd March, a married woman of the 45th
Regiment occupying rooms on the third storey of a family
barrack, two or three doors from the person alluded to above,
was seized with cholera and died very rapidly the same day. She is said to
have been a weakly woman, and to have returned from the bazaar (Black Town)
on the previous day during a heavy shower of rain, in which she got drenched.
On the 3rd March, a Private of the A. Company, inhabiting the M. barrack, was
seized with malignant cholera. He recovered of the primary effects, but died of
pneumonia on the 11th March. On the 4th March, four cases occurred, one in
the lower barrack room north-east angle, known as the K. barrack, and three in
the room above the K. barrack, known as the D. barrack. On the 5th March,
Evacuations of rooms
in barracks.
6 Officers, 180 men.
another case occurred in the D. barrack. On the afternoon
of 5th March, the rooms D. and K. were evacuated, the men,
strength as per margin, being sent to the cholera camp at
the Red Hills, under canvas. On the 8th March, just before an official inspection
of barracks made by myself, Drs. Hadaway, and Elliott, accompanied by the Com-
manding and Medical Officers of the Regiment, a Colour Sergeant temporarily
residing in No. 1 Pay Sergeant's quarters, centre of barracks on the ground floor,
was attacked by symptoms of cholera. He died the same 'evening. This was
the last case occurring in the barracks.
Cases in Camp at
Red Hills.
140. Of the men sent to the Red Hill camp, the following cases occurred :—•
One man (Lewis) was attacked on 6th March soon after arrival
at the camp ; he had been suffering from diarrhoea since the
previous day. Another case happened on the 7th " choleraic diarrhoea." Three
other cases occurred on the 9th, two of which died, and one recovered.