Professor Pettenkofer on Pilgrims and Puri

striking fact, namely, with the admission journal of a pilgrim hospital at Puri." " And," Pettenkofer continues, " when one finally compares the sums of the cholera in individual months, it appears that in the mass of pilgrims constantly coming and going throughout the year?which, in the middle of March, at the time of the chief festival, attains a very excessive maximum?cholera moves with the season of the year, just as though the pilgrims were a fixed population in Puri. Puri appeares to be a place like Madras, with a double rythm of cholera, which, in a series of years, is not less exactly reflected and limited in this specimen of a body of human beings in constant movement, than in the civil population of Madras. The great festival of Puri is in the middle of March, to which enormous masses of pilgrims stream together; in all the remaining months the number of pilgrims is relatively much less, and, nevertheless, the admissions of cholera patients into the Pilgrim Hospital during the festival of March