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 354 SIT Cholera.-Some deaths from cholera arc reported every year, but the disease seldom appears in the district as an epidemic, and the mortality from it is comparatively trifling. In 1869 it prevaited during April and May in an epidemie form. It commenced at the Nímkhár fair ou the Gumti in the beginning of April, and spread to different parts of the dis- trict on the return of the pilgrims to their homes. I cannot obtain any mortuary returns for 1869, but I know that the mortality from cholera that year was considerable. As a rule, however, the district is very free from epidemic cholera. The ratio of total deaths to deaths from cholera for the last three years is as 1 to 0018. I do not know of any disease especially peculiar to the district. 1