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At Negwariee, a village a few hundred yards below Gurchapra a death
from cholera was also reported on the 4th June ; but only 4 deaths, out of a
population of 348, were reported.
155. Jinghrai is on alluvial soil, about 1½ mile north of the Hîrun; the
water-supply is derived from wells and from a large tank near the village; the level
of the water in the well is 39 feet from the surface. Three Bharatees returned sick.
from Gurchapra, and died the next day ; those that were attacked during the
next day or two had also accompanied the Bharat. Altogether 22 persons died in
about 8 days. Population was 429.
156. Joonwanee,—a village about two miles from Jingrahi; water supply
from wells and from a large tank ; the water in the well was 29 feet from the.
surface. The first case of cholera was that of a man who had joined the Bharat
from Jingrahi ; he was taken ill at Gurchapra, and died the next day after his
return : 8 other persons were living in the same house, but none were attacked,
and there was no other case for ten days ; then a youth and a child in a house in a
different part of the village were attacked and died. Several cases followed in
different parts of the village, and altogether 11 deaths occurred. The popula-
tion is returned at 604. Persons from many other villages joined the Bharat
at Jingrahi, and from the 4th to the 8th June deaths from cholera were reported
from 12 villages within a radius of 6 miles, but in those only abovernentioned
did any great mortality occur.
157. Sehora is the central town of this tract of country ; it is the.
Tehseel station, and has a weekly market, attended from all the villages round; it
is also traversed by the Mirzapore road. It is situated class to, low laterite and
metamorphic hills, and there are several large tanks close to it; these tanks, how-
ever, are above the level of the greater part of the town, and do not receive its,
surface drainage. The water-supply is derived chiefly from wells, though no doubt
many of the poorer classes resort to the tanks. The level of the water in a well
sunk in latérite above the level of the tanks was 40 feet below the surface; in
wells in the town below the tanks it was 19 feet below the surface of the ground
in December. The people said that in ordinary seasons it is higher, and that in
the rains, it commonly rises level, with the surface of the ground, and that the
plain is under water for some distance.
Sehora has the reputation of being the most feverish locality in the district,
fever continuing prevalent there long after it has declined in other parts. The,
officials suffered so, much from fever that it has been proposed to move the head-
quarters of the tehseel, for at least a portion, of the year, to, another locality.
Only two cases of cholera occured here in 1868 (in July), and this, year the town
has again experienced an almost equal degree of immunity. Several villages in
the immediate vicinity of Sehora suffered severely.
158. Khorawal,—two miles north of Sehora, situated on rising ground; the
soil a light alluvium over latérite; the population 648, chiefly Cachees, gardeners
and cowherds. The majority of the villages in the Jubbulpore, district are
greatly crowded, but this one was. exceptionally so. It did not occupy more than
three acres of ground; there was no entrance or street by which it was possible to
ride into the village; it was simply a congeries of huts, with very narrow alleys
between the blocks, the roofs of the huts almost meeting over head. The vil-
lagers are chiefly occupied in grazing cattle, and these are kept in the houses at
night, from 2 to 8 or 10 in each house. Cholera was, first reported on the 7th
July; it is said to have prevailed 20 days, and in that period 19 deaths occurred.
The first person attacked was a Cachi, who had not left the village for some days
previously; his house was in the middle of the village, occupied by himself, his.
wife and 3 children, and at night, 5 animals. The area of the hut was about 20