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The total number of deaths in the Godavery District, the direct effect,' so
far as can be made out, of the original importation into Woongatla village in
the month of March, was 13,305 and the relative mortality to population in
each registration circle is as below :—
Table showing proportion of Deaths to 1,000 of Population of the different Taloolks and Municipal Towns
of the Godavery District during each month of the year 1870.
Talooks and Municipal Towns.
Rajahmundry Municipal Town ...
Do.
Talook
Coconada Municipal Town
Peddapore
Talook
Ramachendrapore „
Amalapore
,,
Narasapore
,,
Undi Talook
Tannaku „
Ellore Municipal Town ...
Ellore Talook
Ernagudiem Talook
Zemindaries
January. February.
March.
April.
0.009
0.01
0.07
0.05
0.08
0.3
May.
2.6
0.02
0.02
0.03
0.4
0.13
0.5
3.2
0.3
0.2
0.03
June.
3.3
1.3
0.1
2.9
0.9
2.1
1.3
1.8
6.6
1.5
1.3
2.1
2.1
July.
1.02
2.49
0.7
3.3
5.2
4.2
5.09
5.3
6.6
2.2
1.04
1.1
5.2
August.
0.2
3.2
2.04
3.3
4.3
11
1.7
2.7
2.3
2.3
1.6
0.9
11.6
September.
0.6
0.8
1.1
0.8
0.8
0.5
0.2
0.4
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
1.4
October.
0.2
0.4
0.1
0.009
0.2
0.4
007
0.01
0.05
0.2
0.04
0.07
0.1
November.
0.2
0.07
1.3
0.06
0.2
0.3
0.1
0.09
0.05
December.
0.4
0.04
0.05
0.04
...
Total.
8.4
8.5
5.9
10.5
12.1
9.1
9.01
10.7
16.6
9.6
4.6
5.06
20.7
Intensity of cholera
influenced by moisture
of soil.
100. It will be observed from the large cholera map that the intensity was
greatest m the talooks of the delta of the Godavery river,
on either side of the river, after its division into channels
and canals. The conditions of soil and sub-soil moisture,
in fact, in this river delta, are almost identical with those I have noticed
in reference to the Cauvery delta in Tanjore. There are, however, these impor-
tant distinctions in the sanitary history of the two deltas, namely, that cholera is
often completely absent from the Godavery delta for long periods together, while
in Tanjore it is nearly always present, and that the Godavery District is especi-
ally liable to a heavy fever mortality after the setting in of the north-east
monsoon, while in Tanjore the mortality from this cause is always low, and is
less influenced apparently by monsoon rains. The Godavery delta, moreover,
usually feels the cholera influence most severely during the season of the south-
west monsoon, and that of the Cauvery during the north-east monsoon. The
former district is liable to rainfall from both monsoons, but Tanjore receives its
greatest rainfall during the north-east monsoon. Both districts are brought
under irrigation, when the Cauvery and Godavery rivers are filled by the
south-west monsoon rains.
101. KISTNA DISTRICT.—There is little to be said in regard to cholera in the
Kistna District, except that it was manifestly the direct southern extension of
the outbreak in the Godavery District. It did not appear before June in epide-
mic form. The eighteen deaths in the Palnad Talook in March and April were,
so far as I can judge, independent of the outbreak later on, for the talook was
wholly free of cholera after April. The Nundigama talook adjoining the
Nizam's country had not a single case, nor had the talooks of Sattanpully and
Vinnaconda. In no part of the affected talooks was there any general prevalence
previous to the month of August. Many talooks of this district are under
canal irrigation during the south-west monsoon season, but they suffered
much less from cholera than the irrigated tracts of the Godavery District.
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