37
bodies of those that died at Salee warra were thrown into the pool above that
from which the villages of Kattea draw water. 3 deaths from cholera were re-
ported from Saleewarra on the 1st July, on the 4th 7, on the 6th 6. The disease
then appeared to have ceased. The first deaths from cholera at Kuttea were
reported on the 8th.
Ghoorayahghat,—water-supply from a well and from the river, the other
end of the pool under Kutteaghat. No cholera ; population about 80.
133. Puruswarra,—about 1½ mile on right of road, situated among ravines; a
stream running below the village, from which the people drink. 1 7 deaths occurred
out of a population of 164; the first case was reported on the 12th June.
Jhintmara,— adjoining the last 15 deaths; population 254; same condition of
water-supply.
Tilberee,—population 75; a mile higher up the same stream, the water of
which the people chiefly drink; there is a large well, but it does not appear
to be much used (there was a dead turtle floating in it) ; 8 deaths occurred about
the 20th June.
Bilheree,—a small collection of huts on the same stream, a mile from the Euro-
pean barracks, and occupied by camp followers; the number is said to have been 15.
S deaths occurred. This stream drains the swamp to the east of the cantonment,
and is much fouled by elephants and cattle brought here to water.
Kutteaghat, and all the villages last mentioned, are within two or three
miles of Jubbulpore cantonment, but still in the trap formation, which in this
direction extendeas far as the European hospital, and there meets the Jubbulpore
beds of sandstone.
134. To the north-east the trap extends over the tract of country included
within the Koondum Police circle, the principal features of which resemble
those of Burgee and Lucknadown. Throughout it presents a succession of hill
and valley, and is everywhere intersected by innumerable streams. It is traversed
along its southern border by the Gour, and to the east by the Mahanuddee ; the
Hirun and the Pureyat have their sources in the hills that form the central por-
tion of the tract. 212 villages in this tract of country report to the Station-house
at Koondum; they are chiefly small, and are scattered over a wide area. From
30 of these villages deaths from cholera were reported ; and, as in the other parts
of the trap formation, in many of the villages attacked the mortality was very
great. Sudaphul, with a population of 360, lost 31 in a little more than a week;
at Suckra 16 died out of 103 ; and at Halka 10 out of 105. To the north of
the circle is a narrow valley, watered by the sources of the Hirun, and there the
villages of Kachurgaon, Mehaie, and Khummureah, suffered severely in the end
of July and in August.
135. Bordering the trap formation, and intervening between it and the
granite rocks that extend from near the Nerbudda at Lumeitaghat for 20
miles in a north-easterly direction, are the Jubbulpore beds of sandstone; and on
ground near the south-western extremity of these beds, and closely abutting in
the trap, lies the cantonment of Jubbulpore. The site occupied by the barracks
and regimental bazaar is formed of abed of loose sandy soil overlying a stratum
of impermeable white clay. In the hot weather the sub-soil water lies at from
16 to 20 feet from the surface, but in the rains it rises nearly level with the
surface of tue ground; and, owing to the imperfect drainage of the locality, sub-
soil water is long retained near the surface.
136. In former epidemics of cholera the cantonment is said to have escaped,
and in that oí last year it did not suffer to any great extent. Cholera first broke
out in a body of work-people employed on the drainage works of the swampy