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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.