Five Years of Cholera Prevalence in the Turkish Empire

even approximately?known, has undoubtedly been very great. The behaviour of the epidemic in different parts of the country and during the varying seasons of these two years has offered many points of interest to the observer; and it will be the object of the present paper to place before the members of the Epidemiological Society the facts of this two years' prevalence of cholera, so far as they have been made known to the authorities in Constantinople. A brief preliminary word may be said as to the extent of the Turkish dominions in Asia. They include Asia Minor, Turkish Armenia or Kurdistan, Syria, Mesopotamia, and a great part of the Arabian peninsula. With the exception of Asia Minor, all these regions have been visited by cholera during some portion of the two j^ears in question, and each will be dealt with in detail in the course of this