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60. Sailooa, a small village of 80 inhabitants, 2 miles from Lucknadown,
is situated on the slope of a hill near its base. Cholera broke out about the 21st of
May, when 19 cases and 10 deaths were reported ; one death was reported subse-
quently on the 27th. The first person attacked was a woman who had bee,n
employed at Lucknadown grinding wheat ; this woman's hut was situated on
blacksoil of some little depth; the disease next attacked a family 4 in number
living in a hut close by, all of whom died. The people get their drinking water
from a well in low ground at a little distance; the water in this well was 20 feet
below the surface in November. In the hot weather it was nearly dry. For
washing and bathing the people resorted to the Goorda stream, about 300 yards
distant ; the pools in this were stagnant.
81. Koorsepar, a village with a population of 113, half a mile from the
last, is situated on a rocky site about 50 yards from the Goorda nullah, but the
ground around is blacksoil. The first person attacked with cholera was a woman
who had attended the funeral of a person who died in Sailooa. She had eaten
her meal there, and was attacked when returning; she had not been at Sailooa
more than an hour or so, she died the next day ; the next persons attacked be-
longed to her family. The first death from cholera was reported on the 1st June;
between this and the 14th, 20 cases and 16 deaths were reported. The people
draw their drinking water from a surface well in the blacksoil at a little distance
from the village ; the level of the water in November was 10 feet below the
surface; for washing and bathing they resorted to the Guorda stream.
82. Sehora, 7miles from Lucknadown, is a large village, with a population
of 1,700, and holding a weekly bazaar ; it is situated on high rocky ground.
and was cleaner than the smaller villages. It first appears in the cholera reports
on the 27th May, when 9 deaths were reported. The inhabitants gave the follow-
ino· account :—Munniar, a Mussulman, went to Goaree, a neighbouring village,
on Saturday the 16th, and on Sunday when returning was taken ill on the road ;
he reached home on Tuesday about 8 in the morning ; in the evening of that day
the child of a Fakeer was attacked and died the next day, the 20th. Munniar did
not die till the following Monday, the 25th; in the meantime his mother, several
of his family, and others in the village, were attacked and died ; altogether 1 9
deaths (a little over 1 per cent) occurred; of these, 7 were Mahomeoans, who
form a very small fraction of the population. The water-supply for drinking is
drawn solely from a surface well about 200 yards from the town, in which there
is a good supply at all seasons of the year ; for washing the people resort to a
small tank near the well, or to the Shere river which lies half a mile distant in
the bottom between Sehora and Rana. The dhobee of the place stated that he
washed the clothes of the Mahomedan and others that died, in the Shere.
83. Rana is rather more than a mile N.E. of Sehora. The path first de-
scends to the Shere, then crosses a ridge into another bottom, it thence ascends
to the flat top of the ridge on which Rana is situated; the surface of the ground
is so thickly strewn with nodular trap that it was difficult to make way over it;
there are a few stunted trees and one moderately fine peepul tree near the village,
but otherwise the ridge would be in May bare of all vegetation.
The village
consists of about 80 houses with a population of 346, and is divided into three
parts or tolas ; the main tola of about 60 houses is placed on the northern edge
of the ridge overlooking a narrow bottom ; on the slope of the opposite ridge
the other tolas are placed ; these are separated by a dry rocky water-course; the
larger of them consists of 16 houses, the smaller of only 4. The several portions
of the village are all built on nodular trap, the only material like soil covering
the rock being a fine dust composed of the ashes and dried sweepings of the
place. The sources of water-supply are a surface well and an open spring, the for-
mer in the bottom at a little distance to the east of the village, and the spring