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feet by 8 ; in the same court was another hut, occupied by 4 persons and 2
animals; the Cachi was the only one attacked ; 3 persons were attacked the same
day in different parts of the village, and all died in from 12 to 24 hours. The 19
deaths occurred in 19 houses, inhabited by 79 persons, or rather more than
4 persons to a house. There were G others attacked, who recovered; but in only
one house were 2 persons attacked, and both these recovered. The water-supply is
derived from wells, of which there are several. The well most used was 23 feet deep,
and had a scanty supply in December; apparently all the deaths occurred in famil-
ies using this well. On the opposite side of the village, the people using a differ-
ent well, no deaths occurred ; this part of the village was also less crowded.
159. Dursunee,—a village one mile from Khurawul, situated on latérite,
untidy and dirty, bat not overcrowded. There is a large tank on the west side,
below the village, the slope towards the tank being much fouled. There are wells in
the village, the water of which is commonly used for drinking, but the tank water
is used for cooking and washing. The water in the wells is scanty, and it is probable
that a large proportion of the people used the tank water for all purposes.
Cholera prevailed in August, and 25 persons died; the population is 415. Of
those that died, 3 were men, 6 women, 10 boys, and G girls.
160. Gaora,—situated on metamorphie rock uncovered by soil, close under
a hill ; jungle and waste all around; population 817, chiefly cowherds Village
very confined and dirty; water-supply from a well at a little distance from the
village, and a tank nearer the village; the well is in lower ground than the village;
the water was 17 feet from the surface. The appearance of cholera was first
reported on the 13th July, and 15 deaths occurred. The first person attacked
was a woman, who had not left the village for some time. Of those that died,
5 were women, 6 girls, and 4 boys.
161. Dhinara-Khummureah,—a mile east of Gaora ; a stagnant nullah lying
between them, to which the people of both villages resort for watering cattle.
The population of Dhinara-Khummureah is 415. A death from cholera was report-
ed on the 8th June,—the son of a Gond, who had been with his father to Jinghrai
and returned ill ; no more cases occurred at that time. Some weeks afterwards
a cowherd's son came across a party burying the body of a person who had died
of cholera at Gaora ; he saw the body about 1 P.M., was attacked with vomiting
and purging about 4. and died the following morning ; a woman of the same
caste, who also saw the body, was taken ill the sama evening, and died three days
afterwards In the house where the boy lived there were 5 other persons living,
and in the same small court 10 more ; in the woman's house also there were 3
persons living ; none of them were attacked, nor did any other case occur in the
village. Cholera was thus brought twice into this village, but it did not spread.
The water-supply is derived solely from wells ; there is a tank near the village,
but it was nearly dry at the time, and the people do not use it. There are two
wells, the water in which in 16 feet from the surface; the water of one is slightly
brackish, and is used solely for washing.
At Burgee, a large village on the main road, with its water-supply solely
from wells, there was no cholera.
162. The alluvial plain to the west of Sehora, bounded on the south by
the Hirun river, on the north by the low hills of the Bilheri pergunnah, and on
the west by the Sohar river, is one of the most fertile portions of the district; the
soil is a rich alluvium, bearing two crops yearly. The villages are numerous and
they are generally very crowded, the houses being closely packed together on
small hillocks that rise here and there out of the plain. The water-supply is chiefly
derived from wells, but nearly every village has a tank near it; the wells are
sunk in deep soil and clay ; and the depth of water from the surface varies from
25 to 40 feet in the dry season, rising 15 to 20 feet higher in the rains. Along the