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Observations Regarding Pettenkofer s Theory. 



j^PART 1. 



I am indebted for similar help. These excursions were undertaken more with the 

 intention of getting a fair insight into the geography of the place, than of ascertain- 

 ing what the exact sanitary arrangements were, — to report upon which not being the 

 object of my visit. Careful notes, however, have been taken of what was seen and 

 heard concerning the outbreak of the epidemic, but their narration would unneces- 

 sarily prolong this report and answer no good purpose. I hope, however, on a future 

 occasion to turn what I then learnt to account. 



CAWNPOKE. 



On the way to Lucknow a few days were spent at Cawnpore. Compared to 

 Allahabad, the troops in this station had suffered very little. Dr, Bryden states that 

 the admissions were twenty-seven and the deaths seventeen. 



The soil at Cawnpore is very like what it is at Allahabad, but contains less 

 kunkur. 



Near the artillery barrack there was more clay than elsewhere, but, as a rule, the 

 ground is very permeable to water. 



Many of the wells are very much nearer the surface, water being found at five 

 or ten feet, instead of fifty or sixty, as at Allahabad. Nevertheless, some of the wells 

 examined were thirty feet below the surface. Such a variation I did not observe at 

 Allahabad. The ground slopes towards the Granges : I could not ascertain whether 

 the rise or fall in the river affected the level of the water in the station; but when 

 the river rises, it swamps a large portion of the country along its banks. 



The cholera-camp of the 14th Eegiment was pitched at Bhowpore. The ground 

 about this camp was more sandy even than at Cawnpore, and more permeable to 

 water and air. The relative degrees of permeability of this soil and of the soil near 

 the barracks occupied by artillery, cavalry and infantry regiments are given below : — 



