CHOLERA. Cholera still

lingers

in

most of the districts

Behar, Assam, and Chota Nagpore;

but has

of

Bengal, undergone some

In the North-Western abatement since the advent of the rains. to occur sporadically in the continues disease the Provinces, also, districts of Jounpore,

Allahabad,

and Benares.

occurred in the Cawnpore district

during

A few cases have

the month of August.

in the Cawnpore jail was seized on the 13th August and a soldier of tho l-8th Regiment on the 12th. Nine cases with three deaths took place in the Jounpore jail between the 4th and Two cases occurred in the lines of the 33rd of A

prisoner

17th. August. Native Infantry at Allahabad

on

the 20th and 22nd, and two

fatal cases in those of the 15th Madras Native Infantry at Banda Seven cases occurred in the R. A. at Benares on the IGth idem.

17th, with only one death. Cases have the months been occurring in the Futtehpore district throughout numbers reported being 58, and of June, July, August,?the between the 13th and

up to 16th

August. place during the second week in August at Isaipoora, in a small community of native Christians near Agra. Eight deaths took place among 50 inhabitants. A small outbreak also took place atGoorputtee in theGoorgaon district on or about the 30th June. Up to the 13th July over 40 cases had occurred. The disease is said to have been imported from the Bhurtpore State. A few deaths from cholera continue to appear in the Punjab mortuary returns, but they are subject 85,

and

152,

A limited

to

outbreak took

considerable doubt.