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is no doubt common all over tlie district; but it is possible that a large proportion of deaths for which the returns make it responsible may be ascribed to scurvy, a disease which is produced by the absence of green food, and the unvaried grain diet of the lower orders which make the vast majority of the population.

In the same way cholera is made to account for a large number of deaths really attributable to diarrhoea. When it does appear, it has generally been engendered by the filthy orgies of the Debi Patau fair. The blood of countless victims is allowed to putrify in the open air, and their flesh, cut in strips, hangs froin the trees till it acquires the flavour dear to a hillman's Great multitudes are crowded together, and the majority are far palate. Hac fonte derivata less clean in their habits than the people of the plains. The admirable arrangements made at the last fair secured the elades. Goitre is cleanliness of its frequenters and the health of the district. common, and is not confined to the immediate neighbourhood of the hills. Last year three thousand cases were treated at the Gonda dispensary, chiefly from the central table-land.

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beds of mountain torrents. To the south of that river the system of connections hardly admits of improvement, though the connections themselves do. One metalled road runs from Fyzabad to Gonda, and is kept in admirable order. All the other chief towns, Gonda and Utraula, Gonda and Balrampur, XJtraula and Balrampur, Utraula and Nawabganj.Nawabganj and Colonelganj, Colonelganj and Gonda, Colonelganj and Balrdmpur, Gonda and Bahraich, are joined by common country roads of every degree of efiiciency. Few can be traversed with ease; but none, except perhaps the most important one which goes between Utraula large sum of money has and ISTawabganj, are absolutely impassable. been appropriated to its repair, and it is to be hoped that by next year the rice carts will be able to reach their markets with moderate efforts and in

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a reasonable time. given from official sources. The first road is that connecting Fyzabad with Gonda; this is a metalled Koads. The stages Qjjg^ g^j^(j j[g twenty-eight miles in length. eight miles Wazirganj, Fyzabad; from miles four bazar, are Nawabganj The further; Darzi-ka-Klian, eight miles; and then Gonda, eight miles. rivers are the Sarju and Tirhi; the former crossed just near Fyzabad, and the latter near Nawabganj. The road tha.t branches off from this imperial road is from the 23rd milestone to Bahramghat on the Gogra. (2). From Nawabganj to XJtraula, north-west. This is thirty-six miles long; and the stages are— Bhitaura, eleven miles from Nawabganj Rahra, thirteen rivers are the miles further Pihar, six miles and Utraula, six. The Chamnai, the Manwar, and the Bisuhi, all of which are crossed by wooden ^From Nawabganj to Colonelganj. This road is thirty-five (3.) bridges. from Nawabganj Behmiles long, and the stages are— D^rjanpur, six miles and Colonelganj, miles; nine nine miles.. Paraspur, milesfurther sand, eleven The Tirhi near Dilrjanpur is crossed by a wooden bridge.

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