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54. The actual course of the cholera of 1869 will be best seen in the follow-
ing table :—
Districts.
... ...
...
Population for which returns.
were received ...
Total Deaths ... ...
...
...
Total cholera deaths...
Months of prevalence.
January ...
February ...
March ...
April ...
May ...
June ...
July ...
August ...
September
October ...
November
December
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Kurnool.
7,70,318
18,781
2,817
52
50
203
240
103
709
1,045
305
41
64
5
...
Bellary.
12,57,147
27,387
3,424
...
10
1
258
1,219
1,295
532
87
22
...
...
Cudda-
pah.
11,44.759
21,370
1,859
12
5
18
8
7
96
71·5
533
863
68
8
6
North
Arcot.
17,75,506
84,842
2,605
3
...
5
...
2
86
705
339
549
447
213
256
Nellore.
11,34,757
21,242
1,054
...
...
...
... 3
2
154
219
358
173
39
106
Madras.
12,08,007
26,532
1,127
...
...
...
2
5
5
170
269
218
156
137
165
South
Arcot.
10,92,958
16,839
544
4
2
1
3
5
4
14
3
27
31
63
393
Tanjore.
17,17,268
41,425
4,563
19
18
16
13
13
26
13
138
281
542
1,258
2,226
Triehino-
poly.
9,90,037
15,094
522
6
7
4
4
...
6
...
8
6
7
69
405
Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 of Population.
January ...
February...
March ...
April ...
May ...
June ...
July ...
August ...
September
October
November
December
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
0.06
0.06
0.26
0.31
0.13
0.92
1.35
0.39
0.05
0.08
0.006
...
...
...
0.007
0.0007
0.205
0.96
1.02
0.42
0.06
0.01
...
...
0.01
0.004
0.01
0.007
0.006
0.08
0.62
0.46
0.31
0.05
0.007
0.005
0.001
...
0.002
...
0.001
0.04
0.39
0.19
0.309
0.25
0.11
0.14
...
...
...
...
0.002
0.001
0.13
0.19
0.31
0.15
0.03
0.09
...
...
...
0.001
0.004
0.004
0.14
0.13
0.18
0.12
0.11
0.13
0.003
0.001
0.0009
0.002
0.004
0.003
0.01
0.002
0.01
0.02
0.05
0.35
0.01
0.01
0.009
0.007
0.007
0.01
0.007
0.08
0.16
0.31
0.73
1.29
0.006
0.007
0.004
0.004
...
0.006
...
0.008
0.006
0.007
0.06
0.409
In looking at this table it must be borne in mind, what I have already stated
at page 3, that cholera has a tendency to linger as if it were an endemic in
some localities on the seaboard, and in some of the river deltas on the Eastern
Coast.
55. The few deaths entered as caused by "cholera" in South Arcot, Tanjore,
and Trichinopoly in the earlier months of the year may fairly be taken to represent
the ordinary cholera of the coast. It is easy to see when the invading cholera
reached the districts from the sudden rise in the figures. Thus the invading
cholera of South Arcot evidently reached in September, the culmination of the
epidemic in the Madras District, directly north of it, having taken place in July
and August. In the Tanjore District the invasion seems to have taken place in
August, and whether this was hastened by the assemblage of pilgrims in Nagore
in that month it is not very easy to say. The fact, at any rate, is clear that
cholera appeared during the Mahomedan festival at that place. In the
Trichinopoly District cholera began its invasion late in October, and the
mortality rose rapidly in November, and still more in December.
Madura and Tinne-
velly not occupied in
1869.
56. We have now only briefly to glance at the districts that were empty
of cholera in 1.869 to see the direction that the epidemic
was bound to pursue in the next year of its progress.
These districts, in the extreme south of India, are shown in the following
table :—