|lwlial f|?ws Deaths in
Calcutta, Bombay,
and Madras in
April, 1872.
Calcutta.
Bombay.
Madeas.
430,000
616,636.
Population
?
pi
o
o
.3
o
? .2
P-i
&
Diseases. 'taio
61
Cholera
2
Small-pox
Measles Fever Diarrhoea
416 17 38 5 182
Dysentery Injuries
Other causes Total
721
136
1'063 ?004
7 431
?01
1-039 ?073 ?118
644 49 60
?99 ?07
?019
?577
19 625
1-993
1,835
Still-born
?09 ?03
?97 2-83
71
Deaths
registered during February, 1872.
Diseases.
N. W. Provinces.
Population.
29,588,653
Cholera Small-pox
127 967 25,998
Fevers
Bowel complaints Inj uries Other causes Total
Percentage Suicide
?67
\C Jfale8. 1' ales \C ^Iales. Jb ales em
Wounds
...
Accident
...
em
$?ales,
(, .t emales Snake-bite and ( Males wild animals... \ Females
Oude.
16,859,216 11,223,746 20
51
1,423
499
12,224
8,261
3,279
538
856 180
2,973
7,165
33,882
21,868
1-14 ...
Punjab.
1-25
360 174 529
9,874 0-88
22 26
4 2
13
55
13
20
3
6 6
177 149 43 46
94 54 4
77 52 3
June
MEDICAL NEWS.
1, 1872.]
The Cholera in Oudh.?The following figures fix approximately the mortality in Oudh from cholera during the present year, but until the chowkeydars make their usual monthly reports, it will be impossible to know with any certainty whether the disease is diminishing. rlo the 5th of May, 7 456 persons had been attacked, and 5,221 had died. During the succeeding week 417 persons were attacked, and 2S8 died. The total, therefore, of cases up to the 12th, was 7,873, and of deaths 5,509.?Pioneer. The Cholera in the Terai?Dropping enses of cholera continue to occur among some of the tea plantations in the Terai and at Punkabarry, and even as high up as Kursiong. One of the gardens near Punkabarry had been almost entirely the panic stricken coolies, and several had fled deserted from the Sin^ell estate. Some of the sick men had taken up the Cart Road, but the authorities quarters by "the side of promptly put a stop to this objectionable proceeding. Wfc are glad to learn that it seems likely that the worst is over now, and that the frightened men are returning to work. Ncverthless, there has been sufficient, mischief done to show how urgently necessary it is to provide more readily accessible medical aid for these large groups of tea plantations in the vi< initj of Either Kursiong or of Kursiong and the Terai. Punkabarry should be, we think, the Head-Quarters of a first class dispena of resident medical officer. sary under the direct management ?Darjiling News.
by?
The following statement shows the deaths from cholera in the city of Bombay, during the following years
Before the commencement of Vehar water-supply. 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 18541855 1856 1857 1858 1859
2,128 2,997 5,485 1,520 1,148
...
...
...
...
...
3,507 1,645
...
...
1,846 2,181
...
...
115 1,985
...
...
Total
...
24,557
Since the commencement Vehar water-supply. 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864.
1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 Total
of
1,901 611
...
...
3,170 2,209 4.817
...
...
...
2,887
...
332 Ill
...
...
227
...
745 286
...
...
...
17,525
The latest news from Cawnpore,?is that about cases in all have been admitted from the 8th King's and the A Battery 19th Brigade 11. A., of which more than half have been fatal. The disease broke out in No. 1 barracks
twenty
and the married quarters, or Patcliery as it is called ; the most feature of the outbreak being the fact that many of the victims were married men and leave wives and families behind them. The hospital, in which two cases occurred, has been evacuated, as also Nos. 1 and 2 barrncks and the married quarters (all of the 8tlx King's) ; the Artillery has also moved into cholera camp. It is, we hear, proposed to send a couple of companies to Etawah, so as to get them well away from the influence of the epidemic. The natives in the bazars are also suffering much, but up to the present the officers and their families, and other European residents, have escaped, the only exception being Major Roweroft, and lie, we are glad to hear, is now considered out of danger. The heat at Cawnpore is described as intolerable, and an easterly wind is prevalent, bringing with it an atmosphere loaded with moisture?the most favorable circumstanoe for the spread of the disease. Medical aid lias been sent from Allahabad and Cawnpore, so we may hope that the precautions that have been taken to isolate the infected bodies, and the movement into camp, will soon have the desired affected.?Pioneer.
painful
A committee appointed by the clinical society of London has arrived at the following conclusions regarding the reduction of temperature by quinine : " 1. That large doses of quinia have a marked effect in reducing the temperature in pyrexia, and a less marked effect on and respiration. pulse " 2. The reduction of temperature has not been permanent, but has varied in duration from one to forty-eight hours. '? 3. The most marked effect lias followed when the quinia was given towards the end of the exacerbation or during the remission. " 4. The disagreeable effects of large doses of quinia have been noises in the ears; headache, nausea, and sickness have bt-en rare; delirium quite exceptional; and as regards the collapse noticed in two instances, it is important to remember that this sometimes supervenes in the course of fever independently of quinia, though, in one instance at least, there is reason to think the collapse had some relation to the repeated large doses of the drug. " 5. Although, with the exception perhaps of certain cases of rheumatic fever in which the temperature is high, no decided evidence has been obtained to show that quinia has any influence in shortening the attack of a specific disease as typhus or scarlet fever, yet, from the marked effect in the temperature and pulse, there is reason to believe that at the critical stage of acute disease, when pulse and temperature are high, a larjie dose of quinia might be employed with benefit. " G. In conclusion, your committee are of opinion that while the present inquiry must be regarded as quite a preliminary one, results have been obtained sufficient to warrant a further investigation of the subject."
Calcutta, Bombay,
and Madras in
April, 1872.
Calcutta.
Bombay.
Madeas.
430,000
616,636.
Population
?
pi
o
o
.3
o
? .2
P-i
&
Diseases. 'taio
61
Cholera
2
Small-pox
Measles Fever Diarrhoea
416 17 38 5 182
Dysentery Injuries
Other causes Total
721
136
1'063 ?004
7 431
?01
1-039 ?073 ?118
644 49 60
?99 ?07
?019
?577
19 625
1-993
1,835
Still-born
?09 ?03
?97 2-83
71
Deaths
registered during February, 1872.
Diseases.
N. W. Provinces.
Population.
29,588,653
Cholera Small-pox
127 967 25,998
Fevers
Bowel complaints Inj uries Other causes Total
Percentage Suicide
?67
\C Jfale8. 1' ales \C ^Iales. Jb ales em
Wounds
...
Accident
...
em
$?ales,
(, .t emales Snake-bite and ( Males wild animals... \ Females
Oude.
16,859,216 11,223,746 20
51
1,423
499
12,224
8,261
3,279
538
856 180
2,973
7,165
33,882
21,868
1-14 ...
Punjab.
1-25
360 174 529
9,874 0-88
22 26
4 2
13
55
13
20
3
6 6
177 149 43 46
94 54 4
77 52 3
June
MEDICAL NEWS.
1, 1872.]
The Cholera in Oudh.?The following figures fix approximately the mortality in Oudh from cholera during the present year, but until the chowkeydars make their usual monthly reports, it will be impossible to know with any certainty whether the disease is diminishing. rlo the 5th of May, 7 456 persons had been attacked, and 5,221 had died. During the succeeding week 417 persons were attacked, and 2S8 died. The total, therefore, of cases up to the 12th, was 7,873, and of deaths 5,509.?Pioneer. The Cholera in the Terai?Dropping enses of cholera continue to occur among some of the tea plantations in the Terai and at Punkabarry, and even as high up as Kursiong. One of the gardens near Punkabarry had been almost entirely the panic stricken coolies, and several had fled deserted from the Sin^ell estate. Some of the sick men had taken up the Cart Road, but the authorities quarters by "the side of promptly put a stop to this objectionable proceeding. Wfc are glad to learn that it seems likely that the worst is over now, and that the frightened men are returning to work. Ncverthless, there has been sufficient, mischief done to show how urgently necessary it is to provide more readily accessible medical aid for these large groups of tea plantations in the vi< initj of Either Kursiong or of Kursiong and the Terai. Punkabarry should be, we think, the Head-Quarters of a first class dispena of resident medical officer. sary under the direct management ?Darjiling News.
by?
The following statement shows the deaths from cholera in the city of Bombay, during the following years
Before the commencement of Vehar water-supply. 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 18541855 1856 1857 1858 1859
2,128 2,997 5,485 1,520 1,148
...
...
...
...
...
3,507 1,645
...
...
1,846 2,181
...
...
115 1,985
...
...
Total
...
24,557
Since the commencement Vehar water-supply. 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864.
1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 Total
of
1,901 611
...
...
3,170 2,209 4.817
...
...
...
2,887
...
332 Ill
...
...
227
...
745 286
...
...
...
17,525
The latest news from Cawnpore,?is that about cases in all have been admitted from the 8th King's and the A Battery 19th Brigade 11. A., of which more than half have been fatal. The disease broke out in No. 1 barracks
twenty
and the married quarters, or Patcliery as it is called ; the most feature of the outbreak being the fact that many of the victims were married men and leave wives and families behind them. The hospital, in which two cases occurred, has been evacuated, as also Nos. 1 and 2 barrncks and the married quarters (all of the 8tlx King's) ; the Artillery has also moved into cholera camp. It is, we hear, proposed to send a couple of companies to Etawah, so as to get them well away from the influence of the epidemic. The natives in the bazars are also suffering much, but up to the present the officers and their families, and other European residents, have escaped, the only exception being Major Roweroft, and lie, we are glad to hear, is now considered out of danger. The heat at Cawnpore is described as intolerable, and an easterly wind is prevalent, bringing with it an atmosphere loaded with moisture?the most favorable circumstanoe for the spread of the disease. Medical aid lias been sent from Allahabad and Cawnpore, so we may hope that the precautions that have been taken to isolate the infected bodies, and the movement into camp, will soon have the desired affected.?Pioneer.
painful
A committee appointed by the clinical society of London has arrived at the following conclusions regarding the reduction of temperature by quinine : " 1. That large doses of quinia have a marked effect in reducing the temperature in pyrexia, and a less marked effect on and respiration. pulse " 2. The reduction of temperature has not been permanent, but has varied in duration from one to forty-eight hours. '? 3. The most marked effect lias followed when the quinia was given towards the end of the exacerbation or during the remission. " 4. The disagreeable effects of large doses of quinia have been noises in the ears; headache, nausea, and sickness have bt-en rare; delirium quite exceptional; and as regards the collapse noticed in two instances, it is important to remember that this sometimes supervenes in the course of fever independently of quinia, though, in one instance at least, there is reason to think the collapse had some relation to the repeated large doses of the drug. " 5. Although, with the exception perhaps of certain cases of rheumatic fever in which the temperature is high, no decided evidence has been obtained to show that quinia has any influence in shortening the attack of a specific disease as typhus or scarlet fever, yet, from the marked effect in the temperature and pulse, there is reason to believe that at the critical stage of acute disease, when pulse and temperature are high, a larjie dose of quinia might be employed with benefit. " G. In conclusion, your committee are of opinion that while the present inquiry must be regarded as quite a preliminary one, results have been obtained sufficient to warrant a further investigation of the subject."
