CHOLERA IN CALCUTTA. TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE

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INDIAN MEDICAL

GAZETTE."

Sir.?In your article 011 my Remarks on Dr. Cuningham s Cholera Report of 1872, you observe tlint " Dr. DeReii^ omits to quote the Calcutta cholera deaths of 1873." reference to this omission, allow me to explain that, at the tin1? the pamphlet was written, I had not the Calcutta statistics " hand in an authentic form, otherwise I should have be*"'1 1 glad to give the figures up to the most recent, date. Throufi f0< the kindness of the Health Officer for Rotnhay, who has years furnished me with a copy of his Quarterly RepOrf?' r" I was able to give very recent statistics for that city. Your marks show that the Calcutta statistics of 1873 confirm * in the I believe that those of ^

some

opinion expressed

pamphlet.

past months of the present do the

same.

lour obedient servant.

A. C. C. DkRknzt,

Sanitary Commissioner, Laiiore, October

21 st, 1874.

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