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 SOUTHEELY EXTENSION FROM NAG POKE, 1818. 27

later it spread to Cliundali. Tlie disease first appeared at Jaulna on tlie 3rd of July, and from tkat date until tlie llth of the month it prevailed both among Europeans and Natives, disappearing before the end of July. The Russel Brigade arrived at Jaulna on the 4th, and left for Hyderabad on the 6th of July, without any cases of the disease having appeared among the troops, but a few days afterwards it attacked them, and produced great mortality. A party of gentlemen, with about 1000 followers, arrived at Jaulna on the 4th, and left it in good health on the 6th. Before they arrived at Aurungabad, however, many of their followers were seized with cholera, and it began to prevail at that place soon after their arrival.* " The disease was most prevalent in the vicinity of the place where the first case occurred. Her Majesty's Royal Scots, who were stationed immediately in front of the general market-place, in which the disease raged, and with which they had constant communication, suffered much by it ; while the horse' artillery men, who were a con- siderable way in front, and had less communication with the market-place, and but little intercourse with the Royals, suffered, comparatively, very little. This fact, however, has been ascribed to another cause. The artillery men lived in tents, and the Royals in old uncomfortable barracks. The latter were removed into their tents, and the cases the day in which this removal was effected were only one third of the number that had occurred on the preceding day. The disease continued to decline after that period. When it appeared in a family, several individuals of that family generally suffered an attack."!


 * ' Bombay Cholera Report,' jj. 144.

t Scott's ' Report on Cholera,' p. Lvv. Madras, 1822.