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Surgeon-General W. G. Hunter, M.D., Government Medical Adviser in Egypt, 1883. Creator: Unknown.

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Surgeon-General W. G. Hunter, M.D., Government Medical Adviser in Egypt, 1883. 'The daily statistics of deaths from cholera, both in Cairo and in other towns of Egypt, have this week somewhat declined; but eight or nine are dying daily among the British troops. The disease, however, appears to have assumed a less virulent character, as there is a larger proportion of recoveries. Surgeon-General W. G. Hunter, M.D., in his new office as British Medical Adviser and Director, has been very active since his arrival at Cairo. He visited the camp at Barrage, where there are nearly three thousand refugees, and found the arrangements so unsatisfactory that he sent down an English doctor to prevent its becoming a centre of infection for the whole district. All the neighbouring villages have already been attacked. In all probability there is no village east of the Rosetta branch of the river without a case of cholera. The origin of this evil cannot be doubted. A microscopic examination of the Nile water made some time ago proved that it was teeming with bacilli'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.

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