Editorial note — Comparative Mortality of Great Capitals.
Reading edition
[Footnote 139: P, 106. M. Vacher here cites the Indian case quoted by Mr. Farre in is cholera report. The natives in India drink boiled water as a preventative against cholera; and it has been found that out of a great number in the family of a single proprietor in Calcutta, all of whom took this precaution, not a single person had been attacked even in the worst times of the prevalence of cholera. But Dr. Frank has disapproved at least the universality of this fact.]