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still exists a considerable manufacture of coarse cloth in this district the weavers reside chiefly in Siddhaur and Nawabganj ; their productions are of the commonest kind, and their earnings are miserable about one and a quarter anna per day for each adult.

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been considered consistent with the scope of this Gazetteer to which are recorded in the settlement report, which, however, are of importance in estimating aright the condition The following account of medical of this district and its future prospects. It has not

mention in

aspects

this place other facts

by the

is

civil

surgeon



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Fevers. Malarial fevers are endemic in this district, prevailing through the entire year, but with greater intensity during, and immediately after, the rainy season.

Intermittent fever.

—Intermittent

most commonly met with, and

fever of the quotidian type

is

that

undoubtedly the cause of about one-third The tertian tjrpe is not so frequently seen,

is

of the sickness of the district. being in proportion to the quotidian of 1 to 25.

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Remittent fever. Eemittent fever is not a common disease here. The following return of admission^ during 1873 to the Sadr Dispensary may be taken as a fair example of the relative numbers attacked by these diseases

Ague, quotidian

1,036

tertian Eemittent fever ,,

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...

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42 45

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Malarial poison. The malarial poison does not generally exist in a concentrated form, and most of the cases seen in this district are of a mild Comparatively speaking, this part of the province may be said character. to be particularly free from fever of a fatal type.

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The causes of this disease are the absence of proper subCauses. drainage, want of cultivation, the existence of numerous jhils, the water of which, highly charged with decomposed vegetable matter, is gradually dried up the miasma arising from the muddy bed as the water recedes contamination of water in wells in seasons of flood ; drinking of jhil and tank water which is always charged with malarious poison. soil





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Predisposition to disease. The mass of the people are predisposed they are badly fed and suffer from many privations ; this, by depressing their mental and physical powers, renders them more susceptible to the influence of the malarious poison. to the disease

Cholera. as follow

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deaths from cholera during last five years are reported



1869 1870

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1,272

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910

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1871 1872

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4,612 1,536

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1873

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86

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This disease is epidemic, and is generally introduced to the district by pilgrims returning from some cholera infected fair, to spread with greater or less severity according to the season of year or condition the people may be in. The hot months April, May and June, and the months

immediately succeeding close of favourable to

its

spread.

rains,

October and November, seem most