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THE CHOLERA OF  1868.
A year of minimum
Cholera.
43. The great immunity of Southern India from cholera during 1868, has
 frequently been adverted to.  To complete the series of tables
 of cholera mortality, and to  illustrate how completely  an
epidemic invasion may die out in this part of India, I append the monthly deaths
in each district for 1868.
Table showing Cholera Deaths in 1868.
-
Population.
January.
February.
March.
April.
May.
June.
July.
August.
September.
October.
November.
December.
Total.
Ganjam
12,27,757
12
8
32
13
30
12
40
15
25
6
5
9
207
Vizagapatam
15,03,164
2
8
8
8
17
12
53
9
1
...
...
3
121
Godavery  ...
14,23,436
3
6
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
9
Kistna
11,27,075
...
3
6
…
6
...
2
...
…
2
2
...
21
Nellore
11,61,442
…
…
…
…
6
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
6
Cuddapah ...
10,92,266
...
...
...
…
1
4
1
1
…
1
…
6
14
Bellary
10,96,235
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
Kurnool
7,70,728
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
…
Madras
6,56,945
6
6
1
...
5
3
...
...
...
3
...
...
24
Madras town.
4,50,000
7
2
2
…
…
…
…
….
…
…
2
….
13
North Arcot.
17,33,238
144
106
45
4
3
5
7
...
...
3
2
3
322
South Arcot.
9,66,579
151
92
35
114
113
10
7
4
17
2
3
2
550
Tanjore
17,19,479
1,399
675
121
58
50
47
52
42
14
7
19
24
2,508
Trichinopoly.
9,98,395
1,363
562
144
59
19
4
3
9
7
7
9
15
2,201
Madura
19,44,010
69
53
71
28
9
16
3
16
4
11
6
7
293
Tinnevelly 
15,24,121
9
8
3
18
12
6
7
6
7
6
4
8
94
Coimbatore
14,14,252
5
125
99
118
7
4
2
2
5
1
...
...
368
Salem
15,25,945
404
74
497
59
3
4
12
1
1
7
4
5
1,071
South Canara
8,31,927
19
19
7
4
7 
9
8
15
4
9
4
9
114
Malabar
18,50,329
24
13
13
19
12
4
4
7
1
1
…
2
100
Mild type of cholera
in 1868.
The cholera, which spread apparently from Trichinopoly and Tanjore, to
Salem and Coimbatore, in January and February, had become
so mild in type, that, at Salem, the mortality to attacks was
not more than ten per cent. In the town of Madras only thirteen deaths were
registered during the whole year from cholera-a proof, if any were needed, of
the extraordinary healthiness of the year, and of the complete extinction of the
cholera contagium, brought in by the last epidemic invasion in 1864-65. In no
former year of the fifteen, in which a register of deaths has been kept, had cholera
so completely died out in the Presidency town, as it had in the year 1868.
44. And precisely at the period when cholera had ceased to exist as an
epidemic in Southern India, a new emanation of cholera passed out of the
endemic area in lower Bengal, and began to spread itself, in its accustomed
manner, over the Central Provinces, the Bombay Presidency, and Hyderabad.
CHAPTER III.
THE CHOLERA INVASION OF 1869, AND ITS INFLUENCE
ON THE CHOLERA of 1870.
Feeble vitality of
the cholera of former
invasion in 1868.
45. Before I describe the progress of cholera in Southern India during the year
1870, I shall take a retrospective glance at the epidemic
history of the former year, to make plain to the reader the
actual facts in regard to the cholera of 1870. In my report for
1869, I have shown that, throughout the year 1868, cholera was at its minimum
in almost every part of Southern India. In a few of the revenue districts the
remnant of the cholera invasion of 1864-65 had preserved a flickering vitality,