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before described. Many of the villages along this line of country suffered
severely. The first group of villages inspected lay in a tract of open country
traversed by the Babeya river, the villages being chiefly placed on rocky ridges,
and drawing water from the wells in the valley below or from the stream. This
group escaped cholera.
118. Phoolsagree,—water supply from a deep well. No cholera.
Goaree,—water-supply from a deep well lined with masonry; water in January
20 feet from the surface; ordinarily in the rains it rises to within three or four feet
of the surface. No cholera last year, or in the epidemic of 1865.
Buchen Gondee,—2½ miles from Goaree ; water-supply from Babeya nullah.
No cholera last year, but suffered severely in 1865.
Sagur,—2½ miles from Goaree ; water-supply also from nullah. No cholera
last season, but suffered severely in 1865.
Bucko war,—3½ miles from Goaree; water-supply from a well. No cholera last-
season or in 1865.
Lallpore,—a small village on the road, 6 miles from the Babeya river; water-
supply from a deep well. No cholera. Some travellers on the road are said to have
died here. From this point of the road there is a cart track leading to a cluster
of villages in an open bit of country traversed by a stream.
119. Bhowal,—2 miles from Lallpore; population 168; village on a trap hill;
water-supply from the stream below. 10 deaths from cholera in the beginning of
June. The first person that died was a Gondnee ; she had been to the stream
below the village (not the same place where they drink water) to wash clothes ;
she there saw the body of a man who had come from Koorsepar, in the Seonee
district, across the Nerbudda, to make offerings at a shrine in a small hamlet of
the next village, Goojher, and had died of cholera by the stream. The woman
came back frightened, was attacked with cholera the same evening, and died the
next morning. The same day that she died 3 others were taken ill and died before
evening in different parts of the village. Deaths—1 man, 5 women, 4 children—
age, from 8 to 12 years.
120. Goojher,—¾ mile from Bhabul; population 177 ; on blacksoil; water-
supply from a surface well quite unprotected, ground cut away, and sloping towards
mouth from all sides; a stone where the people sit for washing themselves is close
to the edge of the slope; a board is placed across the well at the level of the water, on
which they stand to dip up water. The depth of water is now about 3 feet; in the
hot weather it is nearly dry; and as it got dry the people used to dig a little deeper,
so that the water used was always muddy. The first case was a Lohar, who went
to bathe in the nullah, and saw the body of the man above mentioned; he returned
frightened, was taken ill at once, and died the same evening. The next case was
a Goridnee, living two or three houses off ; she was attacked the next morning
but one after the Lohar died ; it then spread over the village. Deaths—3 men, 3
women, 4 children.
121. Beejagaon,—one mile from Goojher; on trap hill; small village; water-
supply from streams. No cholera.
Bumhnee,—a village a mile from Beejagaon, on a bare trap rock, rising almost
precipitously from the stream, with a small tola below on the other side of the
stream. The population of the whole village is 131; of this number about 40 occu-
pied the small tola; the water-supply of the village on the hill is from a masonry
well 15 feet deep. The people in the tola get water from the stream only; the
people from both village and tola wash their clothes and bathe in the stream.
10 deaths from cholera occurred in the small tola, none in the village on the hill;