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BENGAL PROVINCE, 1877.
The monthly mortality registered from cholera among the civil population
of the province during 1877 is shown in the annexed tabular statement.
Of the total 155,305 deaths 84,918 were of males and 70,387 of females.
The rate per mille of population is 2·58 and per cent. of all deaths registered
14·41.
In 1877 cholera was present in the province in every month of the year,
and visited every district, as shown in the annexed statement. Out of the
663 registering circles it prevailed epidemically in 88 against 154 in 1876;
was severe in 103 against 178 ; mildly prevalent in 410 against 315, and
entirely absent from 62 against 19. The total mortality registered was 155,305
against 196,590 in 1876, giving a death-rate of 2·58 per mille of population
against 3·27, and 14·41 per cent. of all deaths against 19·99 in the preceding
year. As compared with its prevalence in 1876, cholera was markedly on the
decline in 1877, but the disease was nevertheless severely prevalent in parti-
cular localities, and districts that suffered most were those shown in the
subjoined statment:-
District.     
Ratio per mille.
      District.      
Ratio per mille.
Noakholli
     23·94
              Dhaka  
4·27
Bakirganj
     9·97
              Jesore 
4·13
Chittagong   
        8·33 
              Ckumparan
3·62 
Puri    
             7·52  
               Mymensingh    
3·39             
Maldah
     6·50
Pubna
3·15
Nuddea
    3·08
         Balasore
            4·36  
The seasonal prevalence of the disease is shown in the subjoined diagram.
Cholera in the Bengal Province in 1877.
The high range of mortality in January and February of this year is
unusual, and entirely due to an exceptional cause, viz, the epidemic contin-
uance in the Bakirganj, Chittagong, and Noakholli districts of the cholera
developed by the great cyclone wave inundation of October and November
1876. In Bengal Proper the year 1877 opened with a severe prevalence of
cholera in the whole of the southern portion of the central districts, in all
the eastern districts, and in Beerbhum, Hughli, and Howrah of the western
districts. Within this area the disease continued to prevail until May, being
markedly severe in Nuddea, Howrah, Jessore, Dhaka, faridpur, and Tipperah