Report on Preventive Measures Adopted at Dinapore to Mitigate an Epidemic of Cholera
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The measures adopted at Dinapore to obviate an epidemic of cholera, appear to me so interesting that I venture to bring them before the notice of the profession. From the beginning of December 1872 to about the 15th, cases of cholera were continually occurring in the bazar, and occasionally in cantonments ; and on the loth the outbreak culminated in fourteen or fifteen cases in one day. I then thought that speedy action to arrest the disease, if possible, was necessary, and the following hygienic measures were strictly unforced :?
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