On Certain Appearances of Cholera in the Countries Lying between Europe and India Since the Year 1874

was extensively prevalent in European Russia, Poland, and Central Europe, and it spread over a considerable portion of Western, and some parts of Southern Europe, including Bosnia, the Austrian provinces on the eastern coast of the Adriatic, several parts of northern Italy and of the Italian coast on the Mediterranean. The disease is reported to have ceased in Russia in January 1874; it was seriously prevalent in parts of Central Europe in the summer of that year, and there is reason to suspect that there was a renewed prevalence in Poland; but as the year advanced into the autumn the cessation of all news as to the existence of the disease, and the absence of any information as to its then existence in any part of Europe, during the sittings of the International Sanitary Conference in the month of July 1874, appeared to justify the assumption that the renewed diffusion, beginning in 1869, had come entirely to an end before the close of 1874. At this time, moreover, there was reasonable ground for the belief that the countries lying between Europe and India were free from cholera, and that while Europe had thus become relieved from a present evil, there were no indications