Abstract

Statistical evidence of the endemic of cholera in the Bengal Presidency and adjacent areas, long suspected of being the principal endemic centre, if not the home, of the disease, seems to have been furnished first by Bryden,statistical officer with the Sanitary Commissioner of India, in a series of four publications which began to appear in 1869 and were issued in collected form in 1874.

Keywords: Endemic; Statement; Southern china; Epidemic areas; Tropical medicine; Deltaic;