THE BIRTHPLACE OF CHOLERA. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue
27, 24 October 1884, Page 21 THE BIRTHPLACE OF CHOLERA. The on!y
countries upon the globe to which cholera has. not been carried
are the islands of the South Pacific, Australasia, the Cape ot
Good Hope, the islands of tbe North Atlantic, and the western
coast of America. These localities are all separated from India
by a wide expanse of ocean, and have no commercial intercourse
with that country. Cholera has Dot become permanent outside of
India, although it is seldom absent from some of the provinces
of Hindustan. From its birthplace in the delta of the Ganges,
the disease has effected a permanent lodgment in the province of
B.:nga], Madras and Bo T) bay, while in the provinces that lie
to the west and northwest, such as Rappootana and Punjab, it
occurs only as an epidemic, developing after great religions
gatherings. Hurdwar, in the Punjab, at the foot of the Himalaya
Mountains, is the Rreat nursery of cholera. It never originates
there, but h