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HAR 13 Cholera bas never had a wide epidemicity in this district; the waves of epidemics which have passed over have caused small mortality, and the disease has quickly disappeared. It has presented no specific charac- ter, and its ravages did not appear confined to any particular classes of the population. It has generally prevailed in the rainy season. The mortality may be estimated at fifty per cent of those attacked. Small-poo prevails annually in the district, generally in the cold season, and it is to be feared causes a considerable number of deaths amongst the infant population. Few adults die of the disease, as they have all been protected by having had the eruption in early life. It is im- possible to calculate the proportion of deaths to the number attacked. The return of deaths from this cause given in the statement includes those from measles and any other disease in which an eruption on the skin happens to be present; hence the figures barely give an approximation to the actual fact. Small-pox is not cqually fatal every year. In 1867 it caused a very large mortality. Probably it would not be far from the truth to say that 80 per cent of the young children died from this cause during the cold season of 1867-68. No other epidemics prevail in the district. Cattle disease has unfortunately prevailed largely for several years; the two descriptions of discase which call for notice are those fully described in Dr. K. McLeod's communication, and denominated respectively " parchino." or “barrie" and " kura" (Digest of Chief Commissioner's Circulars, page 50, &c.) The former is a constitutional disease, thelatter primarily local, but which destroys cattle by its effects ; they are induced by neglect, filth, &c. The prominent symptoms in parchina are fever, looseness of the bowels, sore-throat, ulceration of the mouth and fances, no eruption on the skin ; in kura, ulceration and swelling of the foot. The natives make no attempt at treatment. It is impossible to state the approximate rate of mortality amongst the cattle attacked, probably 50 per cent. in parchina and 10 or 15 per cent. in kura. I hardly think that the extension of cultivation has anything to do with the prevalence of cattle disease. Pasture lands seem to be abundant. The following drugs are known to be indigenous to the district :- Mineral. 1. Nitre or saltpetre (sbora). 2. Sal Ammonia (nausadar). Vegetable. 8. Opium, Castor oil. Ginger. 6. Madár, Asclepiadaceae, Calotropis Hamiltonii. 7. Bael, Egle Marmeloe. 8. Gumg, substitutes for gam Acacia. 9. Liqnorice, Glycerrhiza glabra. 10. Squill or Kundra, Urginea indica. Animal, 11. Tilini fly, Mylabris-Cichorii. 6.