The Cholera Epidemic in Puri Town and District in July, 1902

In Puri town and district and throughout Orissa, cholera shows itself year after 37ear regularly over a defined area, and from this " infected focus" the disease invades the same bazaars and villages, leaving the greater part of the district untouched. The usual course of the disease is intimately connected with the pilgrimages. In Orissa, cholera is more 01 less endemic from January to August, during which period there are four pilgrimages, viz.,in March the Dol-Jatra, in April the Baisack, in June the Snan-Jatra, and in July the most important ot all, the Rath-Jatra.