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MEMORANDUM ON CHOLERA, BY JOHN 8. BRISTOWE,
M.D., F.R.S., MEDICAL OFFICER OF
HEALTH FOR CAMBERWELL.
Epidemic or Asiatic Cholera has been known
in India for centuries, and probably from time
immemorial. It is seldom entirely absent there,
but at irregular intervals breaks out into widespread
epidemics. The first Indian outbreak, that
specially interests us, is that which, originating in
the delta of the Ganges in the year 1817, soon
ravaged the greater part of Hindostan, and during
the next ten or twelve years spread over nearly the
whole of Asia, including the Burmese Empire,
China, Tartary, and Persia. In 1829 it commenced
its progress through Tartary and Persia into
Europe, and in that year reached Orenburg. It
then became temporarily arrested, but subsequently
took a fresh start; and still travelling slowly westwards
it appeared in the spring of 1831 in European
Russia and Poland, and in October invaded Hamburg,
Berlin and Vienna. In the same month cases