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Title: Lectures on public health : delivered in the lecture-hall of the Royal Dublin Society
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Royal Dublin Society
Subjects: Public health Public Health
Publisher: Dublin : Hodges, Foster
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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ad through Central India and into the Bombay Presi-dency. There are several places in India to which, at certainseasons, vast numbers of the natives journey from greatdistances; at some of them fairs are held, to others they goon pilgrimages. Into these assemblages cholera was intro-duced by those who had come from Lower Bengal, and whenthe gatherings had broken up the individuals who had con-tracted the disease carried it with them to their nativetowns, and so it was found that in 1865 cholera prevailedas a severe epidemic in Bombay. Between Bombay and theSouthern Coast of Arabia there is constant commercial in-tercourse, and in March, 1865, cholera was raging at Mokallaand Mocha, to which it had been carried by native tradersfrom Bombay. Now, this year, 1865, was one of specialimportance in the Mahometan calendar, and during theearly summer devout Mahometans set out from everycountry in which that faith prevails on a pilgrimage toMecca and Medina; the^ came from the East, from India
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P»^frA^l,t/l,.Cr«« HDuthn Br. Little on Distfibution of Disease. 69 and China, and the Indian Archipelago ; they came from theWest, from Turkey, and Egypt, and assembled to the numberof 90,000 around the holy cities. Among the vessels whichconveyed them were two, the Persia and the North Wind.These ships came with pilgrims from Singapore, and aftercalling at Mokalla disembarked their passengers at Djeddah,the port of Mecca; but between Mokalla and Djeddahcholera appeared among the passengers, and with them itfound entrance into the assemblage of pilgrims aroundMecca. These unfortunate people were living under con-ditions in the highest degree favourable to the spread ofany pestilence; they were crowded together, very scantilysupplied with water, and surrounded by every kind of filth,and by the remains of the animals which had been sacri-ficially slaughtered. It is believed that 30,000 personsdied, and those who were left hastened away from the plague-stricken encampment. As I have

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