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from a tank into which some cholera dejecta had passed. Of the 

 ten men who drank the milk four died, five were severely ill, and 

 one, who drank but very little of the milk, was only slightly ill. 

 There was no illness whatever amongst those who did not drink 

 the milk.^ 



In July 1894 an epidemic of cholera occurred in the Gaya Jail, 

 affecting twenty-six persons, half of whom had consumed some 

 milk which had become infected by flies carrying the virus 

 of cholera from some cholera stools (Macrae).^ Comma bacilli 

 were actually found in the implicated milk by Haffkine and 

 Simpson. 



^ Practitioner, vol. xxxix., p. 144. 



^ Indian Med. Gazette, 1894, pp. 407-412. 



