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vaccinated, as well as the two native boys I had brought 

 from Batavia. There were nine deaths a day, but while 

 it is unpleasant to be at a place where such an ej)idemic 

 is raging, there is reassurance in the knowledge that the 

 bacillus must enter through the mouth, and that there- 

 fore, with proper precautions, it is unnecessary for any- 

 body to have cholera. 



A Dutch doctor in Sourahaia told me that he had been 

 practising two years on the Barito River in Borneo, and 

 had gone through a severe epidemic of cholera, but neither 

 he nor his wife had been affected, although their native 

 boy, while waiting at tabic, rcll to the floor and in two 

 hours expired. His wife disinfected plates, forks, spoons, 

 and even the fruit, in a weak solution of permanganate of 

 potassium. Of course there must be no alcoholic excesses. 

 In the tropics it is also essential, for several reasons, al- 

 ways to boil the drinking water. 



The Dutch use an effective cholera essence, and if the 

 remedy is applied immediately the chances for recovery 

 from the attack are favourable. The lieutenant who 

 accompanied me through Central Borneo told me that he 

 saved the life of his wife by immediately initiating treat- 

 ment internally as well as by bathing, without waiting 

 for the doctor's arrival, for the attack occurred in the 

 middle of the night. After three or four hours she was 

 out of danger. One evening at the Bandjermasin hotel 

 I was startled by seeing our three Javanese men taking a 

 sudden and determined departure, carrying all their be- 

 longings. One of the hotel boys who occupied the room 

 next to them had shown the well-known symptoms of 



