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immunity of the villages along its course was remarkable. By the Nursing-
pore road cholera was probably conveyed to Chindwara, 30 miles distant, by
the 4th June, and to Nursingpore a few days later ; yet not more than three villages
along the road or railroad were visited by cholera, and from these no case was
reported till the 29th June. After leaving Gurha the road enters upon almost
the richest part of the alluvial plain ; the villages are well supplied with water
from wells sunk in soil and clay, at a depth varying from 25 to 40 feet; and in
this neighbourhood tanks are not so common as in other parts of the area.
At Sahejpore, a large village on the railroad, on alluvial soil, with an abun-
dant supply of water from wells, and with no other source of supply, there was
no cholera.
At Shaipoora, on the main road, a large village and a Police station, there
was no cholera. The people derive their water from several wells, and have no
other source of supply.
At Kheira, a village close to the Shaipoorah encamping ground, a man suffer-
ing from cholera arrived on the 10th July, and died the next day. No other
cases followed in the village or in Kuttungheegunj, the bazaar along the side of
the road.
180. At Bhittone, a small village (population 94), on the road, a mile from
Shaipoorah, 4 cases occurred. The first case was a Gond, who had been to
Bhimtara, a village a mile distant, where cholera was prevalent ; he returned ill
on the 22nd June, and died the next day ; his wife and child escaped. The next
case was an old Gond, living in the next house to the first case ; he had been to
Khuria,
where he saw the man that had arrived there ill on the 10th July; he
was taken ill immediately after his return home, and died the next day (July 11th);
there were 7 or 8 others living in the same house. The third case was a Gond
woman, attacked 3 days after the death of the old man ; her brothers had assisted
in carrying the body of the old man to the river, three miles distant. The fourth
case, occurring 4 days after No. 3, was a Chumar woman, who had been to
another village in the neighbourhood and returned ill, and died the following day.
In the instance of this village, three out of the four that suffered from cholera
had apparently contracted the disease elsewhere. The water-supply of this
village is from a well only.
181. The village of Bhimkee has a population of 460 ; 7 deaths occurred.
A woman that had come with a Bharat from the Seonee district was taken ill
at Punuria (para. 192), was brought to Bhimkee sick, and died the third day
after her arrival, (the 10th June) ; a Dheemur woman, who came with her, died
the day previous. Four days after this, a girl in the same house was attacked
and died ; afterwards several cases occurred. The sole water-supply of the vil-
lage is a well containing very little water, and the people have to go to Bhimkee,
half a mile distant, where there is a spring with the water bubbling up freely through
the ground. There was no cholera at Bhimkee. Between the two villages there
is a long nullah with stagnant water.
182. Ghunsoor,—a large village, with a population of 948, three miles from
Shaipoorah, and two miles north of the road. Cholera broke out here on the 27th
June, and 31 deaths were imported; there was no evidence of the disease having
been imported from elsewhere. The village is situated on a small hillock, on which the
houses are crowded together. The water-supply is derived from a Baolee (a well
with steps down to the water), but the supply was very scanty. Close under the
village, and partly encircled by it, is a large tank, the water of which was ve y
foul; there are also other tanks half dry close by.