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water. The first person attacked was a man who had been to Soonwarra bazaar
on the 9th July,—he returned well, but was seized at night, and died in about
four hours; the next person attacked was a woman living in another part of the vil-
lage ; the third, a servant of the Malgoozar ; it then spread over the village, 3
to 8 dying daily for some days. The first deaths were reported on the 14th July,
the last on the 30th ; altogether 66 cases and 49 deaths were reported out of a
population of 523.
104. Raipoora,—a small village on a trap hill; water-supply from a surface
well below the hill, but in rather high ground, from which the surface drainage
would be carried off rapidly. No cholera reported ; one child is said to have died.
105. Pindraye,—five miles south-east of Soonwarra, on an open plateau over-
looking the Wyngunga ; the population was 202, chiefly Gonds and Gowlees ; the
soil, blacksoil, thickly strewn with nodular trap. A surface well on low ground
near the next village of Doondawanee had been the source of water-supply, but
it had fallen in, and the peoplehad for some time drawn water from a deep pool in the
Gunga, which is about half a mile distant. Cholera appeared on the 19th June. The
first case was a Dheemur, who returned ill from the neighbouring village of
Khapa, and died the same day. The following night a Gowlee was attacked, and
many others the next day. 28 cases and 1 7 deaths were reported on the 25th,
and 12 deaths on the 27th ; altogether 33 deaths are stated to have occurred. In
the former epidemic this village had escaped. The villagers stated that at the time
of the out-break a dead body was seen floating in the pool from which they drew
their water. It is the common custom to throw dead bodies into the larger river, par-
ticularly during times of cholera pestilence. Many of the bodies of those that died
at Soonwarra were thrown into the river, but that was nearly a month previously,
and Soonwarra is four or five miles above Pindraye. According to the reports,
Pindraye was the first village attacked in that neighbourhood after Soonwarra.
The river was low at the time of the out-break, but there had been heavy rain
10 days previously, and a body may have been brought down from a distance.
Of the bodies of those that died at Pindraye some were thrown into the river,
others into the jungle along its bank; the villagers along the Gunga do not use
water from it. They are commonly at some distance from the banks, which are
steep and inaccessible. Below Pindraye is a deep pool of more than a mile in
length, very deep. Two miles lower down, at the end of another deep pool, is a
hamlet or tola of the village of Koondaree, the inhabitants of which use the
river water. Several deaths occurred in the beginning of July, but the number
cannot be given, as the reports include deaths in the village, which is a mile
distant.
100. Doondawanee,—avillane on a ridge less than a mile from Pindraye ;
population 320. Cholera broke out about three weeks after it appeared at Pindraye;
41 deaths were reported on the 17th, and 4 subsequently ; the people say that 50
deaths occurred in 15 days. The source of water-supply is a surface well in a
strip of marshy ground, in the bottom below the ridge ; the water was very near
the surface in January; the ground around is muddy, and after heavy rain the
surface water of the swamp would cover the well. The people acknowledged to
using the slope of the ridge and long grass near the well as an ordure field. The
out-break of cholera apparently occurred after the heavy fall of rain on the 10th
and llth July ; up to that time the village had remained free, notwithstanding
its close proximity to Pindraye. There was no evidence of the disease having
been imported ; the first person attacked was a woman living in the village. This
village suffered severely in 1865.
107. Keolaree,—the head-quarters of the sub-division, situated on the Sagur
river, near its junction with the Wyngunga; the population is returned at 1,358;
it was very clean and well kept. It lies on trap rock nearly bare of soil, sloping