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7. Out of 62 patients 41 were Mussalmans and 21 Hindus. I have not
seen the disease in a European.
8. The diet consists principally of grain, such as kodó, merows, coarse rice,
joár, sawan, labrarh with the cheap dals, masoor, meea, másh káras, and
urhur. Wheat, moong dál with a little fish and meat are eaten by the well-to-do.
9. Out of an area of 1,755,144 acres, 763,678 acres are now under cultiva-
tion. The grain used is obtained in the district. None of the grain used is grown
on uncultivated land.
10. The cultivation of the district has increased by about 150,000 acres since
the settlement. The use of fresh vegetables has also been introduced. There are
at present 1,300 acres sown with vegetables.
I cannot say whether leprosy has increased of late.
11. I can adduce no such facts.
12. The Natives consider leucoderma and albinesm as akin to leprosy.
B.—LEPROSY IN INDIVIDUALS.
1. Out of 62 patients seven acknowledge that their fathers had the
disease, and one that his grandfather was a leper. Two of the 62 are related
to each other, and there are three albinoes in the same family. These five
individuals belong to a bradari (brotherhood) of 22 houses or families. They
are of the Bunneea caate. They never marry out of their own bradari.
One of the present three albinoes had a nephew, who was an albino, but he is
dead. Taking the two lepers who are related to each other as cases of hereditary
taint, there are altogether ten propagated cases out of 62. The remaining
fifty-two cases are presumably produced. The proportion, therefore, is about
as one to six.
2. The answer to this is involved in the last.
3. All the lepers I have seen have occasionally suffered from fever, but none
can say that they suffered in a marked manner from malarial fever prior to being
attacked with leprosy. I have never heard a leper attribute his disease to prior
attacks of fever.
No. 99, dated Gonda, the 21st June 1876.
From—The Civil Medical Officer of Gonda.
To—The Sanitary Commissioner of Oudh.
IN connection with your No. 584 of the 16th March 1876, referring to
No. 4913 of the Junior Secretary to the Chief Commissioner, Oudh, dated 20th
October 1875, I have the honour to submit the following remarks concerning
leprosy in the town of Gonda. Having assumed charge here on the 1 Oth April last,
I have had no opportunity yet of enquiring into the prevalence of the disease in
the district generally.
2. The population of the town of Gonda is 11,600, and there are at present
fourteen lepers resident, all are over thirty years of age, ten of them are males,
eight are Muhammadans, twelve are married, and six of these have children ,• in no
instance has the disease been communicated by the husband to the wife, or vice
versa, or by either to the children. All these persons state that there is no family
history of the disease. The average duration of the disease for the entire number
is nine years. They are all in poor circumstances. Excepting three, they all con-
tracted the disease while living in Gonda Khas. There is no history of syphilis
amongst them. The earliest age at which the disease commenced was 23
years, a male Hindu, unmarried ; the latest age 46 years, a male Hindu,
married. The anaesthetic variety of the disease is more common than the tubercular.
3. Besides the cases mentioned above there are five lepers in the Gonda
Poor-house :
(1) Salar Rain, Muhammadan, aged 50 years, resident of Gonda District.
Duration of disease eight years ; comes of a healthy family, is married
and has had twelve children, of whom nine are living and are