16
Western India and
the whole peninsula
down to the 14th de-
gree North Lat. cover-
ed by cholera in 1859.
progress of cholera in 1859. However this question may be ultimately settled,
there remains the fact that Western India was covered with
cholera in 1859, from Kurrachee in Scinde, to Travancore in
the extreme south of the peninsula. Not only the Western
Coast, but almost the whole breadth of the peninsula, down so far south as the
14th degree of N. Latitude was under the influence of the epidemic.
Cholera in the Bom-
bay Army, 1859,
11. From the Returns of the Bombay Army for 1859-60, given in the
Appendix to the Report of the Royal Sanitary Commission for
India, I have extracted the following figures which illustrate
in some degree the distribution of cholera in 1859 in that Presidency.

Stations.
EUROPEAN TPROOS.
NATIVE TROOPS.
TOTAL.
Attacked.
Died.
Attacked.
Died.
Attacked.
Died.
Mhow
Bombay
13
8
33
16
46
24
Sattara
1
1
8
3
9
4
Kolapore
15
5
15
5
Belgaum
3
1
3
1
Ahmedabad

22
13
22
13
Baroda
7
5
6
1
13
6
Muligaum
4
2
12
5
16
7
Poonah
70
37
21
7
91
44
Kirkee
7
3

7
3
Nusserabad
2
1

2
1
Deesa

Sholapore
1
1
10
2
11
3
Surat

11
4
11
4
Hyderabad (Scinde)


Kurrachee
10
2

10
2

These figures are for the official year ending March 31st, 1860, but I have
ascertained that cholera caused nearly the whole of the mortality in the latter
nine months of 1859, and if any confirmation of the fact of the early invasion of that Presidency in 1859 be wanting, the Mortuary Register for the town of
Bombay will supply it.
Cholera deaths in the town of Bombay, 1859.
January.
February.
March.
April.
May.
June.
July.
August.
September.
October.
November.
December.
Cholera mortality in Bombay in 1859
9
10
9
7
69
843
329
170
41
83
131
282
Here we have evidence of cholera spreading epidemically in Bombay in the
month of May 1859.
Invasion of Hydera-
bad in the Deccan.
Kurnool, Cuddapah,
Bellary, and Ghooty,
Vizagapatam, Goda-
very, and Kistna Dis-
tricts.
Nellore.
12. Coming on southward to the Madras Presidency we find cholera attack-
ing Hyderabad in the Deccan with exceeding force in the
month of May. The cholera mortality in the city during that
epidemic was something appalling, and to this day the cholera out-break of 1859 is remembered by the native inhabitants as one of the severest visitations that
ever afflicted them. The particulars in regard to troops at Secunderabad will
be found in the tables in the Appendix. Pursuing its way southward, the
invading cholera attacked Kurnool, Bellary, Ghooty, and
Cuddapah, in the same month or early in June. In an
easterly direction it overflowed the Eastern Ghauts, and
affected the Vizagapatam, Godavery, and Kistna coast dis-
tricts in June and July. Nellore was also affected, as the Civil Dispensary
returns show thirty-six cases treated. But this eastern extension must have