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nish, and soon afterwards declined rapidly. About the middle of January 1819 it recurred in a
moderate degree, but after two or three days it began speedily to disappear. Many cases w ere
reported to have happened among the native inhabitants of the town and neighbouring country in
July 1819, and in some parts of the district during August and September. The disease showed
itself again at this place about the middle of November, and it prevailed to a considerable extent in
the early part of December 1819.
Tanjore.
* Note.-The irregula-
rity and long continuance
of cholera in Tanjore is,
as marked now, as it was
in the invasion recorded
by Scott. (W. R. C.)
It reached Tanjore and its neighbourhood about the 20th of Novem-
ber, soon become very frequent, continued to increase irregularly during
December, and attained its acme about the middle of January 1819. It
began soon afterwards to decline; but its decrease seems to have been slow
and irregular. * It did not disappear until April 1820.
Madura.
† Note.-The Madura
District is still remarka-
ble for the persisteuce of
cholera when the district
is once invaded. (W.R.C.)
Continuing its progress to the south it appeared at Madura about the end of November,
and soon became diffused over the adjacent districts of Dindigul and Ramnad-
Its course in these districts has been irregular and protracted so long that in
some places it did not cease to be general until March or April 1821. At several places it had
declined and almost disappeared, but returned without any evident cause:
it was very general and destructive over the whole of the Madura District in
the month of June 1819.† In the districts of Madura and Dindigul the
endemic fever prevailed to a great extent at the same time with the cholera.
Palamcottah.
At Palamcottah it began to prevail in the beginning of January 1819, and it had declined
considerably before the end of that month. It disappeared from the inhabit-
ants and troops previously stationed there, early in February; but the 1st
Battalion 15th Regiment, which had returned from Ceylon, continued to suffer from it till near the
end of that month. It was sometime afterwards reported by natives that the disease prevailed in
different parts of the surrounding country, but no cases were again observed at Palamcottah until
the beginning of September. Many cases occurred here in September and December 1819 and in
January and the latter part of April 1820. It prevailed also to a considerable extent in the town
of Tinnevelly in April 1820.
Having now given some account of the course of this epidemic along the eastern and interior
territories of this Presidency, it only remains to advert to its progress along the Malabar Coast.
Dharwar.
It seems to have prevailed at Hullyhall and Soonda early in September 1818, and to have
continued there for several weeks. These places are situated to the west
and south of Dharwar, where it has been seen the disease was prevalent
during the latter part of August.
Mangalore.
‡ Note.-With reference
to the time of appearance
of cholera in the western
coast stations it must be
remembered that in
Scott's time, all commu-
nication with other parts
of India was closed from
May to September, du-
ring the violence of the S.
W. Moonsoon. (W.R.C.)
Some cases occurred at Mangalore, especially among the prisoners,
from the beginning to the 20th of September; ‡ but the disease did not then
become general. It recurred with considerable severity on the 8th of
November, and did not disappear till towards the end of January 1819.
It re-appeared in March 1820 in the frontier towns of Soonda, having
spread, according to report, from the adjacent Mahratta States. In June it
had extended southwards to Mangalore. The symptoms were extremely
violent and caused death in many instances in two hours. The mortality
was very great, and the inhabitants fled in terror from their villages to the jungles.
Cannanore.
Cases were first seen at Cannanore on the 5th of December. The subjects of these cases
lived in a place near the beach, and on the side of the town next to Tellicherry
where the disease had for sometime prevailed. The disease immediately became
pretty prevalent in the town, and soon afterwards in the neighbouring villages. In the former it began
to decline about the 14th, and in the latter a few days afterwards. It seems to have disappeared before
the end of the month; at most only a few partial cases afterwards occurred. A much greater
quantity of rain than usual is said to have fallen at this place in the preceding monsoon, and during
October and the greater part of November the weather is said to have been calm and sultry. To-
wards the end of the latter month the land-wind began to blow with some force; the atmosphere
was cloudy for a few days; some rain had fallen, and the night air towards the morning was so chill
that the natives complained of the cold. No case had occurred in the fort during the prevalence of
the disease, but about the 10th February 1819 several of the prisoners in the jail were unexpectedly
attacked. In the course of the seven following days twenty-nine of these people were attacked.
The disease then disappeared without having extended beyond the jail.