TABLE 



VII. 





North Dm 



n Dum. 





Ground 

 Water-Level. 

 Feb., Rains, 

 1900. 1899. 



Water- 

 supply. 



Corrected 



Spleen percentages. 



Adult Children. General 



Males. Total. 



ft. 3 in. 2 ft. 3 in. 



Tank 



733 80-6 76-6 





do. 



56-6 625 59-6 



1900.] and the distribution of Anopheles Mosquitos. 465 



solely from tanks and a very few wells, while the villages are sur- 

 rounded by flooded rice fields during the rainy season ; both a bad 

 water-supply arid water-logging being present and factors in causing 

 the marked unhealthiness of this area. 



Ward. 



Western (16) 

 Eastern (17) 



South Barrackpore. — This Municipality is a very large and scat- 

 tered one, mainly consisting of a riverine portion situated between the 

 Hooghly and the Grand Trunk Road, the following four Wards of which 

 (beginning from the south) were examined, namely; Agarpara, with a 

 spleen-rate of 30 8 and a ground water-level of 7 ft. in February and 1 

 ft. 8 in. below the surface in the rains of 1899 : Puniliati, with a spleen- 

 rate of 3125 : Sukchar, with a spleen-rate of 121 and a ground water- 

 level of 8 ft. in February, and 2 ft. below the surface in the rains of 

 1899 : and Khardaha, situated just to the south of the khal of the same 

 name, with a spleen-rate of 26*75 and a ground water-level of 6 ft. 6 in. 

 down in February. All these depend mainly for their water-supply on 

 the river, while the exceptionally low rate of Sukchar appears to be 

 due to the unusual number of good pukka houses, many of which are 

 two stories high, the inhabitants of which must have been much better 

 to do than the majority of those in most of the other Wards, while 

 tanks are also fewer than usual in this Ward. 



This Municipality also includes a large area of rice land with 

 scattered villages to the east of the Grand Trunk Road, and extending 

 across the Eastern Bengal Railway. Two portions of this were 

 examined, namely, one to the east of Puniliati and Sukchar, consisting 

 mainly of the village Sodepore on either side of the Eastern Bengal 

 Railway, but mostly to the east of it, and another village called 

 Natagore to the east of the former. The spleen-rate of this area was 

 60'4, that of Sodepore having been 61*7, and that of Natagore 64*4. 

 The ground watei -levels in February were 10 ft. 6 in. and 9 ft. 

 respectively, and in the rainy season of J 899, 2 ft. and 4 ft. below the 

 surface, measurements which, it will be observed, are very similar 

 to those of the riverine portions of this Municipality, the slight 

 difference being in favour of the inland portions, although their spleen- 

 rates are very much higher than those of the parts on the banks of the 

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