29
In Coimbatore, Salem, South. Canara, and Malabar there were the same
general features, viz., slight prevalence during the first two or three months of
the year, followed by almost complete extinction.
In the Northern Districts cholera prevailed to some extent in the Kistna,
which had suffered less than the adjoining district in 1866 ; but it faded out
and died away in Nellore, Godavery, and Vizagapatam.
In Ganjam also there was a great diminution of cholera.
41. The main fact of the year in reference to cholera, was the almost complete
extinction of the invading cholera of 1864-65. In the Tanjore and surrounding
districts only, was there a revival in strength. The cholera of the Kistna
District is said to have been aggravated by pilgrims returning from the Kurnool
District, where cholera broke out at a festival early in the year.
The following table, constructed on the principle of that at page 27, is
designed to show the monthly mortality in each, district. The figures of each
district should be compared with those of the former table. The total cholera
mortality was 33239
Table showing Cholera Deaths in 1867.
—
Ganjam
Vizagapatam
Godavery
Kistna
Nellore
Cuddapah
Bellary
Kurnool
Madras
Madras town
North Arcot
South Arcot.
Tanjore
Trichinopoly
Madura
Tinnevelly ..
Coimbatore
Salem
South Canara
Malabar
Population.
11,82,349
14,24,652
14,01,762
7,26,398
10,60,932
10,91,920
13,12,705
7,40,614
6 64,836
4,50,000
11,47,896
11,72,902
15,80,602
8,90,673
8,27,554
13,63,051
12,78,482
14,93,221
| 8,09,150
17 28,014
January.
99
40
29
48
537
114
5
1,654
337
1417
1,970
1,587
519
1,259
1,398
387
434
203
45
February.
42
21
21
34
292
50
'23
468
290
698
402
908
189
416
472
99
195
46
52
March.
16
12
41
316
119
34
1
74
89
82
228
123
757
72
153
182
93
77
17
68
April.
21
16
39
1,283
119
81
1
69
35
3
33
31
533
45
92
105
8
59
23
32
May.
18
10
56
437
12
c
1
18
2
1
16
19
522
15
28
37
1
24
20
15
June.
26
10
74
340
7
9
...
141
3
.. .
23
174
789
22
14
12
...
3
16
27
July.
15
16
79
220
1
15
2
41
11
...
9
826
1,196
37
32
12
2
...
38
8
August.
118
9
89
455
1
3
2
4
1
1
469
790
231
8
11
1
20
7
September.
15
1
96
436
1
2
3
1
194
448
186
13
6
1
c
21
4
October.
7
6
30
66
1
1
1
...
3
139
307
34
18
c
1
13
8
November.
118
1
11
65
5
1
...
3
82
282
37
7
8
2
10
15
...
December.
53
3
12
3
79
118
275
252
16
9
8
5
30
5
Total.
548
145
575
3,700
1 090
323
10
368
2,283
648
2,511
4,547
8,394
1,639
2,056
2,254
603
812
462
271
42. This table well illustrates the sudden declension of epidemic cholera
over the whole area of the Presidency (with noted exceptions) after March. The
first exception is that of the Kistna District in which cholera attained its
maximum of intensity in April. It will be noticed also, that cholera had begun to
increase in the Kurnool District in February, and so far as the records go, it
was from this district that the seeds of the new out-break in the Kistna District
came. Another exception is to be found in the Tanjore District and the
adjoining talooks of South Arcot and Trichinopoly, where cholera, instead of
dying out as elsewhere, revived in June and July, and was still prevailing at
the end of the year. The history of this Tanjore cholera of 1867 I have no
record of. (I was absent from India in that and the following year, and I have
no data to guide me as to the causes influencing the increase of the epidemic in
June and July, but I have a strong impression that this prolongation of the epi-
demic was promoted in the ordinary way, i.e., by outbreaks at pilgrim sites, and
the dispersion of affected persons.) I have already, in the Special Cholera Report
for 1869, noticed the tendency of cholera to linger in the Cauvery delta, as if it
were localized as an endemic of the soil.