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WAR DEPARTMENT,

SURGEON GENERAL'S OFFICE,

WASHINGTON, MAY 4, 1867.

REPORT

ON

EPIDEMIC CHOLERA

IN THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES,

LANE LIBRARY

DURING THE YEAR 1866.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1867.

! !༢། 7746 1967

CIRCULAR No. 5.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

SURGEON GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, D. C., May 4, 1867.

The following report on the epidemic of cholera, as it occurred in the army last year, is published for the information and guidance of medical officers.

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REPORT

ON

EPIDEMIC CHOLERA

IN THE

ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES,

DURING THE YEAR 1866.

By Brevet Lieut. Col. J. J. Woodward, Assistant Surgeon U. S. A.

SURGEON GENERAL'S OFFICE, May 1, 1867.

GENERAL: In accordance with your instructions, I have the honor to submit the following brief statement of the prevalence of cholera in the United States Army during the last six months of the year 1866. In preparing this statement, the official reports have been carefully examined and compared, and the greatest pains have been taken to secure accuracy. Appended are statistical tables exhibiting the monthly number of cases and deaths of cholera, and of the allied bowel affections for each post where the disease prevailed, and such extracts from the official reports on the subject as have been thought to possess professional interest, whether as vouchers for the statements here made or otherwise.

Although the total number of cases is not very great, yet they bear so large a proportion to the number of troops exposed to the disease, and the circumstances attending the transmission of the epidemic from post to post are, in most instances, so well known, and of such significance in connection with the question of quarantine, that the history here presented appears well worthy of the attention of all interested in problems of public hygiene.

The first reported case of cholera in the army during 1866 occurred at Fort Columbus, Governor's island, New York Harbor, on the evening of July 3rd. The patient was a recruit from the recruiting rendezvous at Minneapolis, Minnesota, of whose previous history and exposure nothing is known. He had

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