Epidemic Influenza in and around the City of Calcutta

middle of June 1918 that I came across a number of cases in Cross Street, which is not only the centre of the piece-goods trade, but also the harbour of imported epidemic diseases. It is generally from this street that the germs of contagious and infectious diseases are carried in all directions through the city. In the year 1890 when influenza visited Calcutta for the first time, it selected Cross Street to ̂ commence its work. Owing to the very prosperous condition of the piece-goods trade on account