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high rocky ground overlooking the Bunjur river, population 257, 12 deaths
occurred in June; water drawn from the stream that passes Nadia and from the
Bunjur river.
Kedarpore,—a village also about half a mile from Nadia, on trap rook ;
water-supply from a well only; the well is situated in garden ground outside
the village. The water in January was 15 feet from the surface, but it rises level
with the ground in the rains. The bore of the well is through blacksoil and
basalt. No cholera.
112. Mahorajpore is a large village with a population of 1587, on alluvial soil,
at the junction of the Bunjur river with the Nerbudda; the water-supply is solely
from the river. 14 cases of cholera occurred in June ; of these, 10 drew their
water-supply from the Bunjur, where the water is shallow and the bank muddy ;
and 4 from the Nerbudda, where there is a stone ghat and the water is deep.
113. The town of Mundla is situated on the Nerbudda. The site of the
town is alluvial clay, rising about 30 feet above the water. The town looks very
clean; there are public latrines, and conservancy is well attended to. All the
drainage of the town, however, must necessarily go into the river. The population
of the town in 1866 was 4,336. The out-break of cholera in 1868 is thus described
by the Civil Surgeon, Dr. Kidd :—" On the 1st June the Police reported that à
woman who had recently left Seonee had arrived in Mundla ill with cholera;
she took ill on the road, and died a few hours after being brought to her house
in the town. On the night of the 2nd a case of cholera occurred near the house
where the woman died. On the 3rd as many as 8 cases occurred along the road
in the town by which the woman had been carried; of these 8, 5 died the same
day. From this time the disease rapidly spread over the whole town, the number
of fresh cases per day rising to 11 on the 9th June ; it then fluctuated from 1 to 4,
and again increased to 7 on the 22nd, up to 10 on the 24th. The entire month
of June was hot and close, as only a few occasional showers at the early period
had fallen,—in all about 4 inches ; the wind was light and variable from west to
south-west, south, and south-east."
" The average number that died per day amounted to 3, the largest number that
died on one day (the 25th June) amounted to 8. Cholera cases continued to occur
in the town more or less up to the first heavy fall of rain on the 1st July; after
that the disease began to die out, and ceased altogether about the end of the
month."
Altogether between the 1st June and the middle of July 130 deaths were
reported, or 3 per cent of the population.
114. In Maharajpore, on the western bank of the river, the mortality
amounted to only 0 . 9 per cent of the population. Cholera broke out again in
Mundla in the middle of May of this year, and in the space of a month carried
off 114 victims, or 2 . 6 per cent of the population. In Maharajpore there have
only been G deaths,
As regards character and depth of soil, construction of houses, and ventila-
tion, the conditions are much the same at both places, with the exception that,
of the two, Mundlah is much better looked after in matters of cleanliness and
conservancy. Mundla, being on the western bank of the river, the prevailing wind
in the hot weather would blow across the river to Mundla, and the air would
consequently contain rather more moisture than at Maharajpore.
Both places almost entirely depend on the river for water ; there are nume-
rous stone ghats on both sides of the town ; the people, however, bathe, wash
clothes and cooking vessels, and draw water for drinking, at the same ghats
indiscriminately. Mundla is situated in a bend of the river, which here forms