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At Bhurdarwarra, the village nearest to Ghunsoor the water-supply is
from a well only, in which the supply of water is plentiful Here there was no
cholera.
183, Kunwas-Piperia,--a village with a population of 274, on the road from
Shaipoora to Patun, along which there is considerable traffic. Cholera appeared
here on the 11th July, and 10 deaths occurred. The water-supply is drawn from a
well ; there is also a tank half dry in the village, and a stream close by.
At Khupra, a village with a population of 119, a mile further down this
stream, a death from cholera was reported on the 1st June, and 3 deaths occurred
subsequently,
Simuria, with a population of 94, on the same stream, lost 9 persons in July.
This stream is everywhere sluggish, and in some parts the water is nearly
stagnant.
At Singhery, a village two miles from this stream, there was no cholera. The
water-supply is derived from wells only.
184. Four miles further on towards Patun another stream crosses the
tract. The villages of Burhia-Khera and Simuria, opposite to each other on
either side the stream, and dependent solely upon it for water, suffered severely.
The first case in the two villages occurred on the 19th June; a man belonging to
Simuria had been to Goaree, a neighbouring village, where a bazaar is held
weekly ; he returned ill, and died the next day (neither at this time or subse-
quently did cholera prevail at Goaree) ; after he had returned, but before he
died, the child of a Chumar, living in a different part of the village, was attacked,
and died in 8 hours. The first case in Burhia-Khera occurred on the same
day ; the man returning from Goaree to Simuria would pass through Burhia-
Khera. The latter village lost 14 out of a population of 105 ; Simuria 13 out
of 257. The stream on which these villages are situated runs through a fiat
country, and is generally sluggish ; between the two villages there is a short
rapid with pools above and below. Burhia-Khera drew water from the pool
above the rapid; Simuria from the rapid and the pool below. The latest fall
of rain registered in Jubbulpore (17 miles distant), prior to the out-break of
cholera, occurred on the 10th June. The villages of Deoria and Soorhia, a mile
and a half from Simuria, were not visited by cholera Their water-supply is
derived solely from wells.
185. Along the central road from Jubbulpore to Saugor via Patun, a Bun-
niah travelling from Saugor was seized with cholera, and died at Konee, across
the Hirun, at the foot of the Bhanner range, on the 28th May. The disease
attacked very few villages on this road besides Patun and Konee. Reports
were received from Baneekhera and Timra only, villages close together, 7
miles from Jubbulpore. Cholera appeared in Baneekhera on the 2nd June,
and 8 persons died out of a population of 288. Prom Timra the first death
was reported on the 23rd June, and out of a population of 144, 26 died.
186. Patun, 20 miles from Jubbulpore, is the principal town of that part
of the district ; it has a population of 2,700. There is a Police station, and a large
bazaar is held every Wednesday, where from 1,000 to 3,000 people assemble
The town is. built around a hillock, on which there is an old fort ; the site is very
irregular and much, intersected by water-courses, which were in many places
chocked with rank weed. The town was formerly much larger than it is now
and there are many ruined huts and houses in all directions; among them also
rank vegetation had been permitted to grow, and the place looked dirty and
neglected. The water-supply is drawn solely from wells, of which there is a large
number; many are, however, much out of repair, and all are without coping.
The level of the water below the surface varies (according to the, site, of the well)
from 8 to 20 feet below the surface of the ground ; in many of the wells the