'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1850 to June 1852. Edited by the Secretary. Volume X.' [‎273] (406/458)

RAIN IN SCINDE — JULY AND AUGUST, 1351,
8 * I i g\gi tin ougliout tliGso districts is usually prevalent after tho
inundation, but this season in consequence of so many of the pergun-
nahs having been swamped, it was peculiarly so. And from August
till the beginning of December, it was most severe ; it does not however,
appear that there the mortality much increased from its effects—arising
from the fever, being of an intermittent nature.
9 . It does not appear that any loss of life was occasioned by the
flood itself. Seveial instances of deaths occurred from exposure to
the wet, and the verdict of the Courts of Inquest was always in such
cases, “ Died from exposure.”
10. With regard to the loss of public property, the various per-
gunnah bungalows have sustained more or less damage from the rain,
ihe Government has sustained no loss from damage to grain in store
—the Kardars being wholly responsible for the same.
Pnvate property has suffered greatly, and in the Bunna Meer-
pooi pei gunnahs, ninety-eight hamlets were destroyed or rendered
uninhabitable by the flood. The construction of these forms a mere
nominal loss, as the reconstruction of the mud-houses in which the
poorer classes live involve only labour, but no actual pecuniary expenses,
the wood-work still remaining where the huts fell. The people are
now returning to their homes, a few cattle only were lost, but large
numbers of sheep and goats were drowned the property of the inha
bitants being mostly of a portable nature was, generally speaking, saved.
12. —During the continuance of the inundation the country was
impassable save by boats, all communication by land being stopped.
Generally speaking, the roads are good, and equal to the present
requirements of the country.
13. —It does not appear that the inhabitants have taken advantage
of the late heavy fall of rain, to provide themselves with a future
supply of drinking water. In some places wells exist, and along the
river line good water is always abundant, as also in the beds of the large
off-lets—the Goongea, Pinyaree, &c., but, indeed, the supply of water
is in many places both insufficient and bad in quality. In many places*
the only supply during this season is from a pit near the village, pro
bably from which the earth used in building the houses was dug, and
which is filled from season to season by some canal. Good wells in
small Tillages are scarce* both on account of the expense entailed* and