In the case of Baden the connexion between the appearance of cholera and the war has been carefully investigated.[234] The disease broke out in the region of the Main and Tauber and in the Odenwald, and in regions which had never before been attacked by cholera. On July 24, 1866, Wertheim received a Prussian garrison, which on the 26th was joined by parts of the Hamburg contingent. As mentioned above, cholera had already broken out in Hamburg in June, and a few days after the arrival of the Hanseatic troops some of them contracted the disease and were taken, despite the objections of the local authorities, to the town hospital. On August 6, cases of the disease appeared in the city, and they constituted the beginning of a small epidemic which lasted six weeks. On September 22 the epidemic was over, after the population of 3,383 had lost 28 persons by death; 64 persons contracted the disease. In near-by Freudenberg, of 42 people that contracted the disease, 23 died. In Schönfeld two soldiers of the Hamburg contingent contracted the disease on July 29; the first case among the civil inhabitants, who numbered 524, was on August 2, and in a few days a small epidemic began; 166 people contracted the disease and 55 succumbed to it. At the same time the Hanseatic troops conveyed the disease to Gerlachsheim, where 61 persons contracted it and 32 died of it, and also to Ilmspan, where 97 contracted it and 34 succumbed to it. On August 1 the Hamburg soldiers came to Grünsfeld and brought four cholera patients with them, and the result was that 177 of the inhabitants, who numbered 1,458 all told, contracted the disease and 23 of them died. The disease was conveyed to Dittigheim by cholera convalescents of the Hamburg contingent, and 225 persons contracted it there and 66 succumbed to it. In Gerlachsheim it appeared after a Saxon ammunition-column, which was supposed to be absolutely free from the disease, had passed through the city. In the case of Walldurn, which had a very severe epidemic (the city had 3,339 inhabitants, and of these 827 contracted the disease and 113 succumbed to it), it was impossible to prove that the disease broke out in consequence of the arrival of the soldiers. Külsheim, which was infected from Walldurn, had only a small number of cases. Throughout Baden 1,774 persons contracted cholera and 404 succumbed to it. From these statements it is very evident that the danger of an extensive epidemic of cholera in the regions south of the Main would have been very great, if the war had been carried on there on a large scale, and had thus prevented the authorities from taking measures to prevent the dissemination of the disease.