Report on an Outbreak of Cholera in the Lahore Central Jail in August 1881
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Jail, was at the time of the outbreak in attendance on the cholera cases at this very village of Bundpura, so that I had a good opportunity of comparing notes with him ; he says that choiera broke out in the village on the 4th of August 1881, when three children were attacked on the night of the same day. The two burkundazes and two night watchmen and other jail chovvkidars and burkundazes living in the village, resorted there and ate with their relatives and returned to the jail. Chowkidar '? Juma," living in the
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