?37 Cholera in Northern Districts, 1869. Districts. Ganjam. Vizagapatam. Godavery. Kistna. Population for which returns were received. 10,68,992 10,79,926 14,27,472 12,46,852 Total Deaths. 16,437 22,226 31,939 22,656 Cholera Deaths. 981 567 3 January 17 26 February 14 6 March 58 11 3 April 55 10 May 25 13 June 160 37 July 299 185 August 199 122 September 109 72 October 9 53 November 16 28 December 20 4 Exemption of Goda- very and Kistna Dis- tricts both in 1868 and 1869. The Godavery and Kistna Districts had been practically exempt from cholera for the whole of 1868 as well as 1869. It is true that the death registers for 1868 show a total of six deaths in the Grodavery District from cholera. These are stated to have occurred in January and February. The Kistna District shows twenty-one cholera deaths in 1868 scattered through the year, and here again it is necessary to bear in mind that these scattered and isolated cases may have been either incorrectly reported, or due to so called endemic influences of the coast line. Recapitulation, 59. We have seen, then, in 1869, cholera pressing steadily to the southward ; advancing from the Kistna river to the valley of the Cauvery, where it lay in strength at the end of the year. In this southern advance it passed very lightly over the whole of the country below the ghauts in Western India, and on the east, it passed by, and left untouched, the districts of the Godavery and Kistna. Cholera, in trying to advance from the endemic field in Ganjam to the south, was stopped short in the next district, Vizagapatam. The year was not one of any great mortality, considering that it was a year of invasion. The registered deaths numbered only 21,602 and the following table will illustrate the monthly prevalence in each district :- Table showing Cholera Deaths in 1869. Districts. Population for which returns were received. January. February. March. April. May. June. July August. September. October. November December. Total. Ganjam 10,68,992 17 14 58 55 25 160 299 199 109 9 16 20 981 Vizagapatam 10,79,926 26 6 11 10 13 37 185 122 72 53 28 4 567 Godavery 14,27,472 Kistna 12,46,852 3 3 Nellore 1,34,757 3 2 154 219 358 173 39 106 1,054 Cuddapah 11,44,759 12 5 18 8 7 96 715 533 363 68 8 6 1,859 Bellary 12,57,147 10 1 258 1,219 1,295 532 87 22 3,424 Kurnool 7,70,857 52 50 203 240 103 709 1,045 305 41 64 5 2,817 Madras 8,04,283 90 37 71 83 121 154 1,559 Madras town 4,50,000 2 5 5 80 229 147 73 16 11 568 North Arcot 17,75,506 3 5 2 86 705 339 549 447 213 256 2,605 South Arcot 10,92,958 4 2 1 3 5 4 14 3 27 31 63 393 544 Tanjore 17,31,703 19 18 16 13 13 26 13 138 281 542 1,258 2,226 4,563 Trichinopoly 9,90,037 6 7 4 4 6 8 6 7 69 405 522 Madura 19,46,389 4 10 2 8 4 7 5 8 6 2 3 13 72 Tinnevelly 10,82,301 5 7 12 4 5 9 7 5 5 3 9 9 80 Coimbatore 13,93,582 2 1 1 1 4 3 8 64 60 60 204 Salem 16,19,233 4 3 3 17 2 2 20 36 129 81 297 South Canara 8,36,019 18 30 11 15 5 9 13 8 14 33 19 9 184 Malabar 18,49,671 3 19 19 18 5 1 13 32 9 9 131