( no )
above conditions are not connected (paragraph 51, Doctor J. M. Coates'
Report of Sanitary Commissioner for Bengal for 1876).
In the subjoined tabular statement is shown the total mortality from
cholera registered in 1876 in each district of the province, together with the
ratio per mille of population and the number of villages attacked:—
DISTRICTS.
Hugli
...
Bakirgunge
Number
of
deaths.
4,808
964
1,322
1,673
921
491
1,701
8,565
6,856
14,822
4,063
1,121
874
2,720
2,093
381
8,937
1,734
1,095
11,257
14.135
16,709
Rate per
1,000.
2·86
1·81
1·89
·65
2·54
1·24
2·32
3·87
3·51
7·14
3·00
·74
1-29
2·07
·97
·55
3·24
18·30
2·61
6·06
9·32
8·91
NUMBER OF
VILLAGES -
In the
District.
5,181
2,171
2,846
13,894
954
901
1,516
5,509
3,697
5,083
4,001
7,108
2,383
4,453
4,154
3,979
3,422
465
5,048
3,332
2,863
Affected.
572
238
202
478
119
91
198
1,132
312
2,308
945
162
208
588
236
106
653
96
2,053
1,663
1,167
DISTRICTS.
Mymensingh ...
...
Tipperah ... .
Chittagaon
Noakhali
Shahabad
Muzaffarpur
Darbhanga
Champaran.
Monghyr
Bhagulpur
Puri
Hazaribagh
Lohardugga
...
Singbhum
Manbhum
Number of
deaths.
5,420
3,488
9,300
18,568
4,720
5,514
6,619
2,256
1,273
2,557
2,072
2,356
2,096
2,597
1,815
5,044
4,428
7,361
1,438
3,885
143
1,898
Rate per
1,000.
2·30
2·45
8·9l
20·34
3·02
2·82
3·83
1·03
·57
1·23
1·43
1·29
1·14
1·51
1·44
3·37
5·75
9·55
1·86
3·14
·35
1·90
NUMBER OF
VILLAGES—
In the
District.
7,597
6,289
985
2,542
6,712
6,255
6,112
4,129
3,213
4,350
2,299
2,910
2,739
4,711
9,615
7,006
8,176
4,991
6,704
6,486
3,080
6,363
Affected.
915
926
606
733
1,211
1,385
777
329
199
566
290
439
343
209
288
1,274
685
1,416
255
431
63
289
In the Darjiling district there are no regular villages.
Bardwan.—The cholera mortality registered in 1876 was more than double
the average of that of the three preceding years. It was present thoughout
the year, and prevailed with greater severity from March to June, and again,
but with less intensity in November and December. April and May were the
worst months. The disease was continued into 1876 from an outbreak in the
Katwah sub-division in November 1875, and spread through the d.strict as the
dry season advanced, but disappeared almost entirely as soon as the rains set in.
On the 10th October a considerable inundation took place from the Damudah,
such as had not been known for 10 or 12 years. A great portion of the country,
* * *continued flooded for nearly three months. There had been heavy rain
for two or three days. This was followed by a period of great freedom from
cholera, and no doubt diminished the virulence of the winter outbreak.
Bankura.—Cholera in its severe form commenced in March and abated in
June. July to December, particularly August and September, were months of
marked exemption. The disease first appeared in the town of Bankurah
on the 1st March, during which month and the half of April, it prevailed with
unusual severity, and caused the heavy mortality of 7·74 per 1,000 of its popu-
lation. Numbers went away from the town, business was particularly at a
stand-still, and the courts were closed for some days. It then spread to
circles on the north and the south.
Birbhum.—Here also cholera was severely epidemic from March to June,
and less so in November and December. In April cholera was found to be
prevailing generally throughout the district, and again in November, when
all the circles in the district were affected, except that of Rajnagar.
Midnapur.—The cholera which prevailed in this district in November
and December 1875 continued to extend up to July 1876. After this month
its virulence abated markedly until November, when it broke out afresh, but
in less severe form. February and April were months of severe suffering.
Hugli.—Cholera first appeared in Balagarh circle in February, and spread
gradually. In March the disease prevailed severely in all the other circles
and in the municipality. In May its activity abated. It was present again
in November and December, but in sporadic form.
Howrah.—On the whole the cholera of 1876 in this district was some-
what less fatal than in 1875. The disease prevailed more severely during the
changes of the season from hot to cold and from cold to hot than at other times,
and diminished in intensity when the rains set in. In character it was tran.
sient and erratic, visiting a village, disappearing from it, and going to another,