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Cholera in the Bombay Presidency, 1865.
Divisions.
Tanna
Surat
Kaira ...
Kandeish
Ahmednuggur
Poonah ...
Sholapoor
Sattara ...
Kuludghee
Belgaum
Dharwar
N. Canara
Rutnagherry
Kurrachee
Scinde Hyderabad
Shikapoor
Upper Scinde
Thur and Parkur
Population,
9,00,000
7,92,638
5,86,606
8,22,476
12,52,789
6,79,429
6,34,867
8,58,022
5,63,123
7,07,537
7,82,465
3,94,010
6,85,372
3,40,000
6,30,300
6,50,304
47,955
1,27,035
Cholera Deaths.
7,936
9,463
5,800
14,598
15,609
9,114
3,593
6,878
3,055
1,247
1,191
327
2,250
300
1,850
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Mouths of greatest prevalence .
May and June.
Do.
June and July.
August.
April, May, and June.
Do.
April, May, June, and July.
May and June.
April, May, and June.
May, June, and July.
June and July.
Steady throughout the year.
June and July.
August and September.
July, August, and September.
July and August.
Cholera active and
moving in Bombay
prior to the advent of
south-west monsoon.
32. The point to be noticed about this cholera in the Bombay Provinces is
that it did not wait for the south-west monsoon to bring it into
activity. In the Deccan Districts of Ahmednugger, Poonah,
and Sholapoor, cholera was in force so early as April and May,
and the virulence of the epidemic abated with the setting in of the monsoon. At
Hyderabad, Deccan.
Hyderabad, in the Deccan, cholera was reproduced early in
April, and disappeared in June; a Native corps in marching
from Madras to Hyderabad was struck by the disease, in -the month of February,
in the Nellore District. So early as February and March cholera began to move
Invasion of the Bel-
lary District.
southward through Mysore, and from the southern districts of
Bombay territory into the Bellary District, which had escaped
invasion in 1864. But the most marked manifestation of cholera occurred in the
Great mortality in
Malabar.
Western Coast Districts, particularly in Malabar, where
40,000 of the inhabitants died. Cholera began to be active all
through the cold dry months of the beginning of the year, and attained its
greatest intensity in June and July. At Cochin it broke out with great virulence
in the native town of Muttoncheri, and in the Jail nineteen of the prisoners, out of
Cochin Jail
forty, were attacked; yet, while the pestilence was ravaging
Cochin in this frightful manner, the prisoners at Ernacollum,
in the Native State of Cochin, about three miles away across the backwater,
though overcrowded and exposed to many insanitary conditions, never had a
single case. Cholera was less violent in South Canara than in Malabar, but it
prevailed with some severity in most parts of that district.
Invasion of Nellore
and Northern Coast
Districts.
33, The epidemic advance on the eastern side of the ghauts proceeded through
Hyderabad, Kurnool, and Cuddapah, to Nellore and the districts on the Eastern
Coast, In Nellore a terrible epidemic raged from March until
October, and the prisoners in the Jail suffered very severely
all through March and April. It is noteworthy that during
this season of invasion the hilly tracts of the eastern ghauts, between Cuddapah
and Nellore, proved too slight a barrier to prevent the progress eastward. At
Guntoor cholera began in the district in April and continued until the middle