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the house of the first case, and the third and fourth cases
were the wife and son, respectively, of the first case. The
whole of the family of the second sufferer died of the disease.
The first cases occurred during the rainy season. When
nearly all the first infected family had died of the disease,
another brother came to live with one of them, who had
the fever, and this brother also got fever and died of
kála-ázar.

Village D-n.

     Kála-ázar has been present here for the last five years.
The headman of this village first got fever
in another village, one mile off, where it
was prevalent at that time. This was in the month of
January, and on his return to this village, some of his family
next got the fever, but it was not until the ensuing rainy
season that it spread to others in the village. About 80
persons have died of the disease here.

Village G-a.

     This village has suffered for three years from kála-
ázar, and about half the people have
died of the disease. The first case
was that of a man who came from Doboka (a large
village, some 15 miles from this place) with fever, and
died in this village of kála-ázar. There was kála-ázar
in Doboka at the time he got fever there. Two others
afterwards died in his house. In the same year, a woman
married a man of this village, and came to live here from a
neighbouring one. Soon after she came, it was noticed
that she had fever, and six months later she died of kála-
ázar, and her husband left the village. It was subsequently
ascertained by the villagers that this woman had lost a husband
of the disease before marrying this man. Here then we have
two separate infected people coming to live in this village
in one year, although it was apparently only through the first
that the disease was spread here. In this village again, out
of ten or eleven, who took opium before the epidemic fever
broke out, none died of the disease, and many more now take
it.