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 RAE 181 successive implication of other localities in their immediate or more remote neighbourhood. The cause of cholera has not been determined. Endeavours to connect outbreaks in particular places, with concurrent and exceptional insanitary influences in the surroundings and mode of life of affected communities, bave resulted in failure. I am impressed with the belief that cases of the disease were greatly multiplied by the close asso- ciation of the healthy with the sick in ill-ventilated and overcrowded dwell- ings. Small-pox. The deaths from small-pox of the last six years are given in the following table : Year. Number of deaths from small-pox. Rate per thousand of population. 1868 669 94 1869 3,026 8.86 1870 7,479 3.15 1871 697 0.70 1872 211 021 1873 703 0-71 Except when epidemic in 1869 and 1870 this disease has not been extra- ordinarily destructive. Vaccination is being gradually extended outwards from the sadr station, and a potable decrease in the prevalence of small- pox within protected areas must ensue. This result will bring conviction of the efficacy of vaccination to the minds of the people, and the number who annually consent to the operation may increase in consequence. Fevers. The deaths reported in the last six years as due to fevers are included in the following table :- Year. Number of reported deatha from feverg. Rate per thousand of population. 1369 6,687 8:47 1869 10,820 19.82 1870 14,830 18:30 1871 16,654 16.83 1872 14,970 16.13 1873 14,716 14'87 As it is a well known fact that natives of this country ascribe all deaths from primary ailments of special organs to fever (vernacular " bukhrá”),