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proportion. Water-supply chiefly from wells, of which there are a great number ;
several are now (January) dry that had water in them last year. There is also a
large tank ; it is almost dry now, but last hot weather the water was nearly up
to the bund on the town side ; in this tank the people bathe and wash clothes,
and also wash their dall and rice. Of the wells now in use,—No. 1 nearly dry,
14 feet deep, a little water in one corner, no coping. No. 2 is 400 yards from
village, lined, but no coping, and ground sloping towards well ; water now 9 feet
from surface, in the rains it rises to 1½ foot of the surface. No. 3, much used, on
upper side of tank, bore 15 feet through soil and trap rock; 6 inches of water;
it now contains frogs and insects and is dirty, but the people say the water it
sweet. No. 4, a well near the bazaar, which is a little separate from the town, a
large brick well, but without coping, and water flows back from the surface ; it
contains 2 feet of water at a level of 29 feet from the surface; in the rains the
water rises to 6 feet from the surface ; this well is used entirely by the people
living in the bazaar, and among them there was no cholera. Well No. 5 has a
brick lining, bat is without coping, and there is great reflux of waste water from
the surface; the bore is 20 feet through clay and hard basalt. This well is in
great favour, the water being considered especially soft and sweet, and even reme-
dial in fever and other diseases. A fair quantity of water collects in the rains, but
it does not remain ; and throughout the greater part of the year what collects in
the night is drained dry every morning. When 1 inspected it in January the
water was visible issuing from under the clay and trickling in a small stream
across the rock. Of those that died of cholera 10 lived in the mohulla near
this well.
130. Peepuria,—a small village, with a population returned at 114, and a mile
distant from Burrailla, on trap. Cholera broke out on the 3rd June, and 29 deaths
occurred in one and a half month. In the first case, a Gond returned ill from JubbuL.
pore, and died in two days ; no cases followed immediately; and the villagers were
hoping that the danger had passed by, for in a former epidemic they had suffered
severely; but four days after the death of the Gond, a Brahmin who had been to
the jungle to fetch wood, returned ill; after this it broke out all over the village ;
all castes suffered equally. There are a good many Brahmins in the village, and
the rest are Bunniahs, Aheers, and Gonds; three or four only that were attacked
recovered. Water-supply, a kutcha Baolee, or well with the ground sloped a way
all round it, not faced all round, but stone steps lead down to the water level on
one side ; the water was very dirty, and the depth of water and mud in January
was 3 feet; in the hot weather it was half this depth.
Peepuria Chota,—a smaller village ¾ of a mile distant. No cholera. Water-
supply from a small nullah ; in the hot weather when that gets dry they dig
jeerahs in the bed.
131. Saleewarra,—one mile from Peepuria; population returned at 383.
Deaths 18 ; the first case was a girl of the goatherd caste, taken ill in the village : the
next a goatherd aged 50. Four days after the first, 18 deaths occurred—6 men,
5 women, 2 boys, and 5 girls. The disease continued 28 days. The source of water-
supply is a well 18 feet deep, with 3 feet of water; it contained frogs and insects
and bubbles of air covered the surface ; it was fairly clean when drawn, but de-
posited a flaky sediment. The bodies were thrown into the Gour river.
132. Kuttenghat,— on a high trap rock, rising precipitously above the Gour
river; population 111. Deaths 26; first case, a Bussoorin, who came from Tilheree
sick, and died in about 18 hours; the second case, a Lodin, taken ill the day after
the Bussoorin died ; after this 3 to 6 died daily. The disease lasted 15 days. No
sickness before cholera broke out. Of the deaths, 9 were men, 5 women, 6 boys, and
6 girls. The water-supply is derived from the river, a pool in the Gour river nearly
a mile in length, deep on opposite side, but shallow where they draw water. The