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Admissons per cent. of strength for each month :—
January
February
March
April
May
June
81
1·1
1·5
2·0
.93
.61
July
August
September
October
November
December
·84
·76
·78
·96
·52
·63
Dysentry is very prevalent in Jessore. The months of August and
September appear to be the worst. There are no statistics to show its
prevalence among the general population, but judging from the experience
of charitable dispensaries, cases must be very numerous. The results of twenty-
two years in the jail are as follows :—
Annual admissions per cent. of strength
Ditto
ditto of deaths
Deaths per cent. of cases treated
Admissions per cent. of total admissions
Deaths per cent. of total deaths
6·7
·57
8·6
4·2
12·5
Admissions per cent. of strength for each month : —
January
February
March
April
May
June
.35
.38
.78
.65
.62
.38
July
August
September
October
November
December
.53
.70
.73
.49
.40
.50
Naddia.—Intermittent fevers are common all the year round, and cholera
usually breaks out sporadically about the months of March and April. The
sub-soil water is found during the dry season at about 25 or 30 feet below the
surface; tanks are numerous. Well-water is not considered good and the
people avoid it.
Berhampur.—Cholera generally visits Berhampur in October or Novem-
ber, when the sand-banks in the river begin to dry up, and again in the
months of March, April, and May. During the dry season, 4 to 6 feet from
the surface may be taken as the average depth of the sub-soil water at some
distance from the river (the Bhagiratti), but during the rains the water in
wells is almost on a level with the ground.
Faridpur.— The climate of Faridpur, like that of Eastern Bengal,
is excessively damp, but tolerably equable. By the end of June the
greater part of the district is under water
In the autumn months
paludal fever of a bilious character more or less prevails. The heat is
never excessive, and is by no means uncommon for a hot season to pass
without the thermometer ranging above 86° or 87° in the shade, the air
being cooled by southerly breezes. Sporadic cases of cholera are usually
to be met with more or less in all parts of the district during this period.
The depth of the sub-soil water from the surface varies from about 16 feet in
winter to from 3 to δ in summer. In the dry season graves may be 8 or 9 feet
deep, but in the wet weather they may be only a feet. Burials take place
generally in the same compound where the deceased lived.
Bakirganj.—Cholera is endemic in the district, and is heard of and
seen at all seasons except during the rains. *** Cholera usually makes its
appearance at the commencement of the cold weather and also at the end
of that season, at which times it has a tendency to become epidemic. ***
About the months of March and April cholera generally makes its appearance
in the Barrisal bazar. About this time the river is very low, and the water in the
tanks has become very impure from the long droughts and the filthy habits
of the people. It generally lasts up to the commencement of the rains. During
the months of September and October fevers are very common.*** The
climate of Barrisal is very damp at all seasons of the year. The cold weather
sets in about the middle of November, and lasts up to the middle of
February ; it can never be said to be actually cold, and the bracing feeling
experienced in Behar and the Upper Provinces never observable. The night
air is chilly and raw, and the mornings generally very foggy, During the
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