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CHOLERA 



2 fatal cases of cholera and 2 cases of choleraic 

 diarrhoea occurred. The outbreak led to the in- 

 oculation of 116 persons in the bustee out of the 

 200. Since then, 9 cases of cholera, of which 7 

 were fatal, and 1 case of choleraic diarrhoea have 

 appeared in the bustee, and it is a very extraordinary 

 fact that all these 10 cases of cholera have occurred 

 exclusively among the uninoculated portion of the 

 inhabitants, which, as stated, forms the minority in 

 the bustee ; while none of the inoculated have been 

 affected." {Cholera in Calcutta in 1894. W. J. 

 Simpson.) 



2. Lucknow (1893). 



The story of the outbreak of cholera in the East 

 Lancashire Regiment must be read carefully : — 



" Rumour magnified the events connected with 

 this outbreak, and distorted the facts connected 

 with the inoculations ; and as a result, the current 

 of public opinion, which had previously been in 

 favour of inoculation, set-in strongly in the opposite 

 direction. The advocates of anti-choleraic inocula- 

 tions were abused in no particularly measured 

 terms, and the inoculations were held up to be the 

 source of every possible evil and danger ... of the 

 most loathsome diseases, and of every ill which man 

 is heir to. The distrust engendered by these mis- 

 representations and fulminations was, however, only 

 of a temporary nature ; and when the exact circum- 

 stances came to be known and understood, the con- 

 fidence created by the Calcutta experience began to 

 be considerably restored. Inoculations were per- 

 formed in May 1893, m the East Lancashire, Royal 

 Irish, 1 6th Lancers, 7th Bengal Infantry, 7th 

 Bengal Cavalry, and general populations in the 



