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banks of the Hirun nearly every village suffered more or less, and these will be refer-
red to subsequently; but of the villages in the plain away from the river not many
were visited, and few suffered severely. The villages of Jinghrai and Joonawanee,
in this tract of country, have already been described in connection with the out-
break of cholera in the Bharat at Gurchapra. The village of Lumkamea lost 11
persons in June ; the village of Moreit, near the junction of the Sohar with the
Hirim, lost 24 in the end of June and July. At Ronjha, a village on the road
between Sehora and Mujhowlee, with a population of 150, 8 deaths occurred
in July, all women and children. The village is built on the border of a tank.
At Fondee, the village nearest to Ronjha, the tank is quite away from
the village, at a distance of 800 yards. Here there was no cholera.
163. Beyond the Sohar river the road for a mile or so passes between
hills, and then again opens out into an alluvial plain, lying between the Bignoa
hills and the Kyrnore range to the north and east, and a block of metamorphic
hills to the south. The town of Mujhowlee is the chief place in this
plain; it has a population of 2,300; there is a Police station (or out-post) at
Sehora; and a bazaar is held weekly, where from 2,000 to 3,000 people come in
from the surrounding villages ; it is built on metamorphie rock uncovered by soil,
with good drainage on all sides. The town had been extremely dirty, but the
Deputy Commissioner, Major Playfair, had visited it a day or two before T
arrived, and I found it in course of being cleaned. There are many wells in the
town, but most were without coping, many were very foul; and the water was gene-
rally scanty. Along the western side of the town, and receiving the surface drainage
of the greater part of it, is a tank of large extent; the people say they do not use
the tank water for drinking, but it is much used for soaking dall and rice before
boiling. All classes resort to the tank for cashing clothes and bathing, and it is
most probable that the poorer classes at least use it for all purposes. Cholera
was first reported from this place on the 12th July. The first case was that of
a Cachi, who returned from Morai (para. 191) sick; he recovered, but 5 out of
6 persons Jiving in the same house were attacked and died ; it then spread in
the town, and 80 persons died. The mortality was chiefly among the lower castes
of Cachees, Koshtees, and Dheemurs. A portion of the town furthest from the
tank, and occupied almost entirely by Kyuths, escaped altogether.
164. From the villages in this part of the district no reports of cholera were
sent in, but it happened to be bazaar day when 1 was at Mujhowlee, and the
Kotwals of all the villages that report to the Police out-post were present; from
them I gathered that out of 85 villages that report to the out-post, 11 had been
visited by cholera ; of these, 1 was on the Hirun, 4 on the Sohar, and 3 on
the Kyr river.
The Malgoozar of the next village had established quarantine, and had
allowed no communication with Mujhowlee during the prevalence of cholera,
and his village escaped. The sole source of water-supply for the village was a
large tank, a quarter of a mile distant.
165. The Kyr river rises in the western side of the Kymore range, and
after passing through the hills by a sharp cutting, called the ' Khatao,' taking its
course close under the eastern face of the range, joins the Hirun, a short dis-
tance above the town of Kuttunghee. It runs for the most part in a narrow
channel between steep banks, but here and there it forms wide rocky pools,
which are separate from the main stream, and nearly stagnant; the bank is chiefly
covered with stunted jungle, and much intersected by ravines!
Raneetall,—a scattered village at the Khatao ; the bank is steep, and covered
with jungle ; the water-supply solely from the stream, which here forms stag-
nant pools among the rocks; the bed of the stream much fouled both by people
and cattle. 20 deaths from cholera occurred here.