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BENGAL PROVINCE, 1878.
The mortality registered from cholera among the civil population in this
province in 1878 is shown in the annexed tabular statement.
Of the total 95,192 deaths, 52,118 were of males and 43,074 of females.
The ratio per mille of population is 1.58, and per cent. of all deaths regis-
tered 8.94.
During the year 1878 cholera visited every district, and was present
in every month, as shown in the annexed statement. Compared with the results
of the preceding year ;--Of the 673 registering circles it prevailed epidemically
in 46 against 88 ; was severe in 67 against 103 ; mildly prevalent in 518 against
410, and entirely absent from 47 against 62 ; and it affected 18,821 villages
against 23,041. The total deaths registered amounted to 95,192, or 1.58 per
mille of the population under registration, against 155,305, or 2.58 per mille.
Thus both the extent of prevalence and fatality of cholera in 1878 were mark-
edly less than in 1877. There were, however, as in former years, special
localities in which the ravages of the disease were severely felt, and the
districts that suffered most are the following:-
Districts.
Ratio per
mille.
Puri
9.83
Kattak
4.06
Parnia
3.85
Bhagalpur
3.76
Hazaribagh
3.16
24-Parganahs
3.06
Naddia
2.97
Jaisur
2.93
Darjiling
2.80
Howrah
2.56
Balasur
2.36
Jalpaiguri
2.26
The features of the monthly incidence of cholera in this year are shown
in the subjoined diagram and statement of mortality and rainfall:-
Cholera in the Bengal Province in 1878.