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tank is unoccupied, and not liable to pollution. In a well in the village, the bore of
which was through latente, the water was 32 feet from the surface and the
supply scanty. There was no cholera.
152. Beyond Gosulpore the road enters upon an alluvial plain, traversed by
the Hirun river ; the soil is a rich alluvium, in many parts bearing two crops
yearly,—one of rice in the rainy season, and wheat and gram in the cold weather.
The Water-supply is derived from wells, or from the Hirun, and other smaller
streams that flow into it. Near the greater number of the villages there is a large
tank. Cholera was more frequent in the villages in this tract of country than
around Punagurh and Gosulpore, but it was chiefly confined to the villages
dependent for waler on the Hirun and the Hagni.
153. The Hagni is a very sluggish stream, which, after a course of about
8 miles, falls into the Hirun, where the latter is crossed by the railway.
Several villages along this stream suffered.
Bhooclooa, a village on this stream, with a population of 420, lost 18 from
cholera early in June. The first case was a Lodi's child ; the brother had been
to Hursingha, a village adjoining Jingrahi (para. 155) ; he, however, showed no
signs of sickness on his return or afterwards; another child died in the same house.
There is a well a little distance from the village, the water in which was 21 feet
from the surface. The better class of people draw water from this well, but the
villagers generally from the stream; this is here a long stagnant reach, much
choked with weed and shaded with trees. Phoonawanee and Khummurea, small
villages higher up the stream, suffered in the same proportion. Khaganow, a
village lower down the stream, lost 5 out of a population of 107, in August. The
Barnoo river, two miles from the Hagni, is a clear running stream with a sandy
bottom; on this stream the town of Rumkeria and the villages of Algora,
Oomurria, and Rhetowra were inspected. None had been visited by cholera.
In Kumkeria there is a large number of wells which the people use, but the
other villages depend on the stream.
Burraillie,—a small village on the Hirun ; water-supply for drinking from
a well 45 feet deep; for washing, &c., the villagers resort to the Hirun. 4 deaths
from cholera.
Ghatsummurea,—a large village on the main road, near where it crosses the
Hirun; water-supply from a well 42 feet deep. No cholera.
154. Gurchapra,—a village on the bank of the Hirun, on which the people
depend solely for water. A Bliarut numbering about 500 persons arrived at this
village on or about the 1st June from Jinghrai, about 1½ mile distant; on the
day after they arrived, cholera broke out. No cholera had been heard of any-
where in the neighbourhood previously, but many fakeers and beggars had come
from Jubbulpore and elsewhere. The first person attacked was a Dheemur woman,
who had nothing to do with the Bharat ; it, however, soon attacked the Bharatees,
who then dispersed ; 9 persons belonging to the village died, out of a population
of 132. The first death was reported at the Police station at Sehora on the 4th
June. The bodies of those who died were thrown into the river in a large pool
some distance above the village. The villagers said no rain had fallen when,
cholera broke out, but the river was flooded a day or so afterwards. A fall of one
inch of rain (the first fall of the season) was registered at Jubbulpore on the 3rd
June, and the same at Sleemanabad, north of the Hirun, on the 4th ; and this
lall appears to have been general over the district, and there was heavy rain again
a few days subsequently.