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Cholera is present the immediate disinfection by
carbolic acid or Condy's fluid of all evacuations and
contaminated articles, are conditions of the utmost
importance in preventing the spread of the disease;
that there is no reason whatever to believe that
indulgence in fruit has any influence whatever in
causing or adding to the virulence of Cholera ; and
that it must not be assumed that the ordinary
summer and autumnal diarrhoea which always
causes a heavy mortality during July and August,
(and violent cases of which are often termed
Choleraic diarrhoea or Cholera) has any relation
at all to the disease now prevailing in Egypt.
J. S. BRISTOWE, M.D., F.R.S.,
Medical Officer of Health.
July 18, 1883.
Since writing the above I have thought that
it might be of interest at the present time to
reproduce some of the more important facts with
respect to the Cholera epidemic of I865-66, as they
are given in my reports for those two years.