Note XXIX-42 — Chapter XXIX · THE PEOPLE OF HONDURAS AND GUATEMALA. 1800-1887.

But few cases appeared in Hond. down to 1856. Wells' Hond., 549. A malady presenting some of the symptoms of cholera did considerable havoc in Costa R. in 1845, and it was apprehended that it might degenerate into the Asiatic type, but it fortunately did not. In the same state the government, to ward off an expected invasion of the disease on the 9th of Feb., 1849, established a strict quarantine, which was raised on the 9th of April. Nic., Registro Ofic., 107; Costa R., Col. Ley., xi. 14-15, 20.