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95. East of the Sagur the country is open and undulating ; the soil is
blacksoil, in some parts overlying the vesicular trap, and producing grass only ; in
others on clay or moorum, and bearing rich crops of wheat and gram. Cholera
did not spread very much in this direction, but some villages suffered severely.
96. Burrora,—a large village near Kyra, on high ground ; soil, blacksoil
and clay overlying moorum. Water-supply from a well only ; water in well in
January 18 feet from the surface; in the rains it rises to 6 feet. No cholera last year.
97. Jugra, — a village situated in a plain of rich blacksoil; the crops
of wheat and gram looking remarkably fine, notwithstanding the dryness of the
season. The site of the village is a mound of hard moorum (decomposed granite),
¿ι small stream running below; near the stream is a well, the water in which is
now G feet from the surface, but in the rains it rises level with the surface of the
ground; the water of the well however is rather hard, and the people use the
water of the stream drawn from a small masonry tank or cistern made in the
bed of the stream ; this is quite open, and the water is dirty; after heavy rain the
stream would overflow the cistern. The first cases of cholera were reported on the
12th July. It appeared first in a Bharat of 25 persons that came from Dhana-
gara, on the Sagur river, where cases of cholera had previously occurred. The first
person attacked was a girl that came with the Bharat; next the bride was carried
off; then the bride's mother; it then spread over the village. Between the 12th and
24th July 64 cases and 43 deaths were reported; but the people say that deaths
occurred occasionally during three or four weeks after this, and they reckoned up 52
deaths altogether. The population in 1866 was 511.
98. Lossa,—a large village, on blacksoil, two miles north-west of Jugra.
This village was burnt down a few years ago, and rebuilt on a new site, selected by
the Deputy Commissioner; it is on sloping ground, and consists of two long rows
of houses with a wide street between them running east and west. 45 deaths were
reported on the 9th August, but the people state that 59 deaths occurred in the
course of about a month; the population is returned the same as Jugra, 511. The
inhabitants draw water from a stream below the slope, having deep stagnant pools
with muddy banks and bottom. There were two wells,— an old one, dry, but which
the Malgoozar was trying to deepen,—and a new one in course of being built. The
dry well in the village was 14 feet deep, the lower 7 feet being through hard basalt;
the new well was on lower ground, the bore was through 5 feet of blacksoil, 12
feet of clay and rock; water was reached at 12 feet from the surface. This vil-
lage suffered severely from cholera in 1805.
Bichooa,—a small village on trap rock between Lossa and Khyra.
Nine deaths were reported in the middle of July; population riot given ;
water-supply from a stream below the rock.
99. The country to the north of the Sagur river between Myra and the
village of Pindraye, on the Wyngunga, a distance of 12 miles, is a succession of
hill and narrow valley and rocky barren upland. The villages are small and
scattered, and built on the ridges; and for water-supply they are generally
dependent on surface wells in the bottom. A large proportion suffered severely
from cholera.
100. Ghunsore,--a village midway between the Sagur and the Wyn-
gunga; it consists of two portions or tolas, each on a separate rocky ridge ; the
population of the whole village is returned as 461 ; about 260 would be in one
tola (No. 1), 200 in the other (No 2). Cholera first appeared on the 3rd July ;
on that date 7 cases and 1 death were reported; and on the 9th, 27 cases and
19 deaths,—in all 34 cases and 20 deaths; the villagers, however, gave a somewhat
different account. The first person attacked was a Sonar, resident in tola No. 1 ;
but no other cases followed then. A day or so afterwards it broke out in tola