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In Coimbatore, Salem, South Canara, and Malabar there were the same
general features, viz., slight prevalence during the first two or three months of
the year, followed by almost complete extinction.
In the Northern Districts cholera prevailed to some extent in the Kistna,
which had suffered less than the adjoining district in 1866; but it faded out
and died away in Nellore, Godavery, and Vizagapatam.
In Ganjam also there was a great diminution of cholera.
41. The main fact of the year in reference to cholera, was the almost complete
extinction of the invading cholera of 1864-65. In the Tanjore and surrounding
districts only, was there a revival in strength. The cholera of the Kistna
District is said to have been aggravated by pilgrims returning from the Kurnool
District, where cholera broke out at a festival early in the year.
The following table, constructed on the principle of that at page 27, is
designed to show the monthly mortality in each district. The figures of each
district should be compared with those of the former table. The total cholera
mortality was 33239
Table showing Cholera Deaths in 1867.
-	Population.	January.	February.	March.	April.	May.	June.	July.	August.	September.	October.	November. 	December.	Total.
Ganjam	11,82,349	99	42	16	21	18	26	15	118	15	7	118	53	548
Vizagapatam	14,24,652	40	21	12	16	10	10	16	9	1	6	1	3	145
Godavery	14,01,762	29	21	41	39	56	74	79	89	96	30	11		575
Kistna	7,26,398	48	34	316	1,283	437	340	220	455	436	66	65		3,700
Nellore	10,60,932	537	292	119	119	12	7	1	1	1	1			1 090
Cuddapah	10,91,920	114	50	34	81	9	9	15	3	2	1	5		323
Bellary	13,12,705	5		1	1	1	...	2						10
Kurnool	7,40,614		'23	74	69	18	141	41	2					368
Madras	6 64,836	1,654	468	89	35	2	3	11	4	3	1	1	12	2,283
Madras town.	4,50,000	337	290	82	3	1	...	...	1		...	...	3	648
North Arcot.	11,47,896	1417	698	228	33	16	23	9	1	 1	3	3	79	2,511
South Arcot.	11,72,902	1,970	402	123	31	19	174	826	469	194	139	82	118	4,547
Tanjore	15,80,602	1,587	908	757	533	522	789	1,196	790	448	307	282	275	8,394
Trichinopoly	8,90,673	519	189	72	45	15	22	37	231	186	34	37	252	1,639
Madura	8,27,554	1,259	416	153	92	28	14	32	8	13	18	7	16	2,056
Tinnevelly ..	13,63,051	1,398	472	182	105	37	12	12	11	6	2	8	9	2,254
Coimbatore	12,78,482	387	99	93	8	1	...	2	1	1	1	2	8	603
Salem	14,93,221	434	195	77	59	24	3	...		5		10	5	812
South Canara	8,09,150	203	46	17	23	20	16	38	20	21	13	15	30	462
Malabar	17 28,014	45	52	68	32	15	27	8	7	4	8	...	5	271
42. This table well illustrates the sudden declension of epidemic cholera
over the whole area of the Presidency (with noted exceptions) after March. The
first exception is that of the Kistna District in which cholera attained its
maximum of intensity in April. It will be noticed also, that cholera had begun to
increase in the Kurnool District in February, and so far as the records go, it
was from this district that the seeds of the new out-break in the Kistna District
came. Another exception is to be found in the Tanjore District and the
adjoining talooks of South Arcot and Trichinopoly, where cholera, instead of
dying out as elsewhere, revived in June and July, and was still prevailing at
the end of the year. The history of this Tanjore cholera of 1867 I have no
record of. (I was absent from India in that and the following year, and I have
no data to guide me as to the causes influencing the increase of the epidemic in
June and July, but I have a strong impression that this prolongation of the epi-
demic was promoted in the ordinary way, i.e., by outbreaks at pilgrim sites, and
the dispersion of affected persons.) I have already, in the Special Cholera Report
for 1869, noticed the tendency of cholera to linger in the Cauvery delta, as if it
were localized as an endemic of the soil.