The Disinfection of Wells during Cholera Epidemics as Exemplified in the Town of Midnapore, Bengal
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III.?The Epidemic of 1895. In this outbreak I introduced Hankin's permanganate of potassium treatment solely. I have made an endeavour, in the map accompanying this report of the last cholera epidemic here, to show as far as possible the number of wells solely or chiefly used by those persons who were attacked, and which were in consequence disinfected (marked " P," the figures indicating cases grouped around each well whose water was used), and from which directly
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