begging ; or, when Hindus, at places, where, after death, their remains may without diffi-
culty be put into the Ganges. But, as a rule, the homes, or places of first attack of
these people, are widespread throughout the district to which they belong. There are,
however, exceptions to this rule, as will appear hereafter.
8. In illustration of this point, I proceed to investigate the facts as recorded in
the 1,531 histories, and I find that the original homes, or places of first attack, in these
1,531 cases were situated in 960 different centres of population, in accordance with
the following list :—
District or country.
Garhwál
...
...
...
Kumaun
...
Tarái
...
...
•••
Bijnor
Moradabad ...
...
•••
Bareilly
...
Budaun
...
Shákjahánpur
Dehra Dún
Saháranpur ...
...
...
Muzaffamagar
Meerut
...
...
...
Bulandshahr ...
Aligarh
...
...
Etah
Muttra
Farukhabad ...
Agra
Etáwah
Mainpuri
...
...
...
Cawnpore
..•
...
Hamirpur
...
...
...
Bánda
Carried over
...
Number of
centres of
Population in
Which. one or
more cases
originated.
49
80
9
22
13
15
27
6
1
45
11
7
33
12
16
16
11
17
9
334
5
7
2
697
District or country.
Brought over
Fatehpur
...
Allahabad ...
...
...
Jauupur
...
...
..•
Gorakhpur ...
Basti
...
...
...
Azamgarh
Gházipur
Benares
.,.
...
,..
Mirzapur
..,
•••
Jalaun
...
...
...
Jhánsi
...
...
...
Lalitpur
...
...
...
Rámpur
...
,.,
...
Gwalior
...
...
Panjáb
Oudh
Nepal
...
...
...
Rajputana ...
Sindh
Cabul
Central Provinces
...
...
Bengal
Mauritius
...
...
Total,
Number oí
centres of
population i
which one c
more cases
originated.
697
18
9
19
8
24
18
19
23
17
14
9
5
3
16
8
la
3
20
t
1
i
14
1
960
This general rule of wide distribution is best illustrated in the case of the Main-
puri district, where 4.67 persons, recorded as having first suffered from the disease in
the district, lived at that time, one or more, in 334 different centres of population, situat-
ed in all parts of the district. And this fact is made further plain by a consideration
of the numerical abstract received from Etah, which records the existence of 653 cases
in that district, distributed as follows :—
Names of police circles.
Soron
...
...
Kásganj
...
Sahawar
Murekra ...
...
•••
Kadirgauj ...
•••
•••
Amanpur ...
•..
Patiali
...
••.
...
Carried over
Cases of le-
prosy.
51
75
51
40
36
35
71
359
Names of police circles.
Brought over
Sirpura
Etah
Nidhauli ...
...
...
Dhauri
...
...
...
Sakít
...
...
...
Aliganj
...
...
Total
Cases of le-
prosy.
359
47
73
48
57
23
46
653
9. On this point, too, I am able to quote the opinion of some medical officers who
have, in addition to the history statements, favoured me with concise reports on the
subject of leprosy. Dr. Jones, of Saháranpur, is of opinion that leprosy in that dis-
trict is pretty equally distributed, and is not due to local causes. Dr. Thomas, of Bánda
states that the disease prevails principally in four widely separated parganas, which
have no special peculiarities characteristic of them. Dr. Prentis, of Gorakhpur records
the opinion that, although leprosy is rather frequent in that district, it does not occur in
one part more than another. Dr. Hooper, of Benares, records the opinion that the
disease is not localized in that district.