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147. The Northern road from Jubbulpore to Mirzapore and the North-West-
traverses the Jubbulpore district for upwards of 60 miles, running parallel with
the railway. The great traffic of former years is of course a good deal taken off
by the railway ; it is, however, still very considerable, and the road is the chief
means of communication between the Sudder town and the towns and villages m
the northern divisions of the district ; the villages and towns are numerous along
its whole length, but not above three or four suffered from cholera, and these very
slightly. The water-supply is chiefly from wells, but in some places it is derived
from large tanks. From Punagurh to Gosulpore the road lies over a flat country,
much of which is waste, the upper formation being hard latérite; wide topes of
large mango trees, however, frequently occur, and form a marked feature of the
landscape.
148. Boragurh,—5 miles from Punagurh, on the road, situated on a hillock
of latérite overlying a yellow clay ; the population is now 700, but at one time
it was large; there are consequently many ruined huts and waste places covered
with jungle, and the village is altogether dirty and untidy. To the west there
is a large lake several miles in circumference. The side of the mound on which
the village is built slopes down to the lake, is covered with jungle and rank
vegetation, and is the common place of resort for the purposes of nature ; the lake-
at the part has a shallow shelving bank, and the people wash and bathe and
draw their drinking water from the same part. From 25 to 30 deaths from cholera
occurred here in June and July.
At Hirunuggur, a village on the same formation, a mile distant on the other
side of the bank, there was no cholera. The villagers get their water from wells,
of which there are several. In a well in low ground the level of the water was
45 feet from the surface ; it was said to rise to 8 feet in average rains.
Deonuggur,—on laterite ; water-supply from a well in low ground below the
village, in which the water-level in January was 18 feet below the surface of
the ground; it is said to rise to 2½ feet from the surface in the rains. This
village is close to the lower border of the Boragurh lake, and the sub-soil water
would rise and fall with the lake. The surface drainage of the village would not
fall into the lake. There was no cholera.
149. Kail was,—a village on the slope of a laterite hill, 2½ miles east of
Boragurh ; population about 200. Cholera broke out in July, and 11 deaths
occurred in from ten to fifteen days, among them the Malgoozar's son. The
first person attacked was a weaver, who, as far as is known, had not left the village
previously. The water-supply is drawn from a well 33 feet deep, but the supply
was scanty. There is a stream, the Kardye, about half a mile distant, where the
people resort for washing, but the people said they did not drink the water, it is
a sluggish stream, and the water is muddy. The villages of Moorurea and
Goorda, higher up the stream, and Khiriene, lower down, suffered rather severely in
June.
150. Dhununpore,—a large village in a basin surrounded by laterite and
metamorpic hills ; the soil stony and sandy. About 200 yards from the village there
is a large tank ; the people, however, draw their water from wells near the village.
In one well, the bore of which was through metamorphic rock, the water was
abundant at 12 feet from the surface; in the rains it rises close to the level of
the ground. In another well, sunk in yellow clay, the water was scanty at 23 feet
from the surface. There was no cholera.
151. Gosulpore,—a large village, with a population of 1,044, traversed by
the main road, is clean and well kept. The water-supply is derived mainly from a,
arge tank faced on all sides with stone masonry; the catchment area of this