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villages showing very large proportions of population attacked and deaths to
cases:—
Villages.
Bhakra
Basodi
Pokhardiha
Chandi
Population.
100
300
150
70
Cases.
56
92
82
18
Deaths.
33
61
25
13
In the annual statement the total deaths appearing for the months of
March to June inclusive is only 173, or 91 less than the numher above men-
tioned, and only 41 more than the total mortality in the above four villages,
thus disclosing a very great defect in registration. In the last week of May
3·7 inches of rain fell, and in the first week of June 5 inches. This corre-
sponds with the time, as before stated, of the subsidence and final disappearance
of the disease. With reference to the prevalence of cholera generally in
this district, the Civil Surgeon says that " he has often observed that in those
years in which there is a deficient rainfall in the early part of the rains the
disease spreads to the highlands of the district, but that when the rains are
plentiful this extension is prevented, and that, dividing the districts into two
parts, high and low lands, the former being about 1,800 to 2,000 feet, and the
latter about 600 feet above the level of the sea, the periods of cholera prev-
alence in them differ. In the high lands cholera does not spread until the
rains have well set in, while the contrary is the case in the low lands, as here
cholera generally occurs in March, April, May, and the beginning of June,
as at the Garwan outbreak, and that the extension of the disease from the
lower to the higher levels depends very much on the quantity of rain
which falls in the end of the hot weather and the earlier part of the rains. If
it is copious, the extension appears to be prevented."
The incidence of the cholera of 1880 among the troops and jail population
in this province is shown in the subjoined abstract statements.
Among the European troops—total average strength 2,625—there were
altogether 2 admissions and 1 death from cholera, giving a death-rate of 0·38
per mille of strength. Of the 5 stations occupied by the European troops,
the 1 following recorded cholera in 1880:—viz,, Dinapore—strength 906 in
May—giving a percentage of admissions to strength of 0·22, and of deaths
to admissions 50. Among the families of the European soldiers—total average
strength, women 142, children 281—there was no cholera recorded in 1880.
Among the native troops—total average strength 3,445—there were alto-
gether 4 admissions and 3 deaths from cholera, giving a death-rate of 0·87
per mille of strength. Of the 9 stations occupied by the native troops, the
3 following recorded cholera in 1880:—
Barrackpore
Dinapore
...
Sigaoli
Strength
1,202
„
583
,, 323
Admissions 1
,, 1
,, 2
Deaths
0
,, 1
,, 2
The strength of the affected troops is 2,108, the percentage of admissions
to strength 0·20, and of deaths to admissions 75. Of the 4 admissions, there
were 3 in April and 1 in May.
Among the jail populations—total average strength 17,687—there were
altogether 53 admissions and 29 deaths from cholera, giving a death-rate of
l·64 per mille of strength. Of the 47 jails in the province, the 17 following
recorded cholera in 1880 :—
Presidency
Alipore
Jessore
Murshidabad .
Hugli
Bardwan
Rajshahi
Dacca
Tipperah
Bakirganj
Strength
1,189
,, 1,996
,, 346
,, 277
„
523
,, 159
,, 176
,,
631
,, 191
,, 427
Admission's
3
,, 2
,, 5
,,
7
,, 2
,, 1
,, 1
,, 3
,, 11
,, 2
Deaths
2
,, 0
,, 4
,, 5
,, 1
,, 1
,, 0
,, 1
,, 6
,,
0
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