A Local and Circumscribed Outbreak of Cholera, Bearing a Special Relation to Food
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A localized outbreak of cholera, especially when occurring outside 4 the endemic urea,'* as in the outbreak now reported,should afford more favorable opportunities for profitable enquiry than the ordinary epidemics occurring in the plains?in that the conditions presented are of a somewhat simpler character. And as the circumstances of this particular outbreak were rather rigorously enquired into, the report is. published. Locality of Outbreak.?Kursiong, the site of this outbreak is a straggling liill-side village
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