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-should be reprinted.
6. Indeed, so much that is valuable is contained in this abstract, that we
would respectfully urge on the Government that the whole
volume might, with advantage, be reprinted in the Govern-
ment Printing Press for general distribution.
Arrangement of topics con-
sidered by the "Conference."
7. The " Conference" divided the subjects of their enquiry into three
groups. 1st.-The origin and generation of Cholera, the
" endemicity" and the " epidemicity" of the disease in India.
2nd.-The transmissibility and the propagation of cholera.
3rd.-The prevention of Cholera.
Under this last group, the Conference have presented not only a report on the
sanitary measures to be taken for the prevention of Cholera; but reports on quaran-
tine measures, on sanitary cordons and on Lazarets; rules for quarantine and dis-
infection; bills of health; measures to be taken in the East are also considered, as are
the measures to be taken in India, and between India and Europe, against the importa-
tion of the disease by sea, and finally the measures to be taken against its importation
by land.
Scope of this Report.
8. In the remarks we are about to submit to the Government, we have
confined ourselves to such portions only of the reports of the
Conference as appear to us of importance in their direct appli-
cation to this Presidency, either in respect to observations
derived from local experience, confirmatory of conclusions arrived at by the Conference,
or subjects upon which it is desirable that information, not available to the Conference,
should hereafter be obtained from this part of India.
The enforcement of the re-
commendations of the Con-
ference requires the authority
of Government.
9. There are many recommendations made by the Conference, which are
peculiarly applicable to this Presidency, and upon which, in
our opinion, it is desirable that action should be taken by
the Government, either by means of legislative enactments,
or by orders in the Civil or Military Departments of the
Administration.
10. The following are the questions considered and the conclusions arrived
at, regarding the chief points which indicate the necessity of laying down certain rules
for the prevention of this disease.
"Question 1st.-Whence comes Asiatic Cholera ? Is it indigenous ? In what
countries is it now endemic ?
"Answer.-The Asiatic Cholera, which has several times spread over the
world, is indigenous in India, where it had its birth, and where it exists permanently
as an endemic.
" Question 2nd.-Is Asiatic Cholera endemic anywhere out of India ?
" Answer.-Asiatic Cholera is never developed spontaneously, and has never
been found to be endemic in the countries of Europe, the Caucasian provinces, Turkey
in Asia, all the North of Africa, and the two Americas, into which it has come from
without. As to the countries in the neighbourhood of India, while admitting
the pro-