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DISEASES DUE TO BACTERIA 



The relation of cholera epidemics to wars is all-important. 



It is of interest to know that during the Napoleonic wars the disease 

 was not known to Europe, so that these were free from this devastating 

 malady. 



(i) In the Egyptian War of 1882-3 the civil population lost 50,000 

 from cholera, but the troops were little afYected by it. 



(2) Cholera was virulent during the Russo-Polish War of 1831. 



(3) After the Crimean War came the infection of all Europe. 



(4) After the Balkan War its distribution was widespread. Both 

 the French and British armies and fleets sufTered. There were prob- 

 ably about 18,000 cases behind the Chataldja lines, whence it was 

 conveyed to the Bulgarian army, and later to the Greek and Serbian 

 armies. 



(5) The Great European War of 1914 : — 



At the commencement of the War cholera prevailed in — 

 Russia, the Province of Podalia. 

 Hungary, 53 different centres. 



