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95. East of the Sagur the country is open and undulating; the soil is
blacksoil, in some parts overlying the vesicular trap, and producing grass only; in
others on clay or moorum, and bearing rich crops of wheat and gram. Cholera
did not spread very much in this direction, but some villages suffered severely.
96. Burrora,-a large village near Kyra, on high ground; soil, blacksoil
and clay overlying moorum. Water-supply from a well only; water in well in
January 18 feet from the surface; in the rains it rises to 6 feet. No cholera last year.
97. Jugra,-a village situated in a plain of rich blacksoil; the crops
of wheat and gram looking remarkably fine, notwithstanding the dryness of the
season. The site of the village is a mound of hard moorum (decomposed granite),
a small stream running below; near the stream is a well, the water in which is
now 6 feet from the surface, but in the rains it rises level with the surface of the
ground; the water of the well however is rather hard, and the people use the
water of the stream drawn from a small masonry tank or cistern made in the
bed of the stream; this is quite open, and the water is dirty; after heavy rain the
stream would overflow the cistern. The first cases of cholera were reported on the
12th July. It appeared first in a Bharat of 25 persons that came from Dhana-
gara, on the Sagur river, where cases of cholera had previously occurred. The first
person attacked was a girl that came with the Bharat; next the bride was carried
off; then the bride's mother; it then spread over the village. Between the 12th and
24th July 64 cases and 43 deaths were reported; but the people say that deaths
occurred occasionally during three or four weeks after this, and they reckoned up 52
deaths altogether. The population in 1866 was 511.
98. Lossa,-a large village, on blacksoil, two miles north-west of Jugra.
This village was burnt down a few years ago, and rebuilt on a new site, selected by
the Deputy Commissioner; it is on sloping ground, and consists of two long rows
of houses with a wide street between them running east and west. 45 deaths were
reported on the 9th August, but the people state that 59 deaths occurred in the
course of about a month; the population is returned the same as Jugra, 511. The
inhabitants draw water from a stream below the slope, having deep stagnant pools
with muddy banks and bottom. There were two wells,-an old one, dry, but which
the Malgoozar was trying to deepen,-and a new one in course of being built. The
dry well in the village was 14 feet deep, the lower 7 feet being through hard basalt;
the new well was on lower ground, the bore was through 5 feet of blacksoil, 12
feet of clay and rock; water was reached at 12 feet from the surface. This vil-
lage suffered severely from cholera in 1865.
Bichooa,-a small village on trap rock between Lossa and Khyra.
Nine deaths were reported in the middle of July; population not given;
water-supply from a stream below the rock.
99. The country to the north of the Sagur river between Myra and the
village of Pindraye, on the Wyngunga, a distance of 12 miles, is a succession of
hill and narrow valley and rocky barren upland. The villages are small and
scattered, and built on the ridges; and for water-supply they are generally
dependent on surface wells in the bottom. A large proportion suffered severely
from cholera.
100. Ghunsore,--a village midway between the Sagur and the Wyn-
gunga; it consists of two portions or tolas, each on a separate rocky ridge; the
population of the whole village is returned as 461; about 260 would be in one
tola (No. 1), 200 in the other (No 2). Cholera first appeared on the 3rd July;
on that date 7 cases and 1 death were reported; and on the 9th, 27 cases and
19 deaths,-in all 34 cases and 20 deaths; the villagers, however, gave a somewhat
different account. The first person attacked was a Sonar, resident in tola No. 1;
but no other cases followed then. A day or so afterwards it broke out in tola