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and the gullies and drains and nahani· traps well flushed with disin-
fectants. Where 4 or more cases had occurred in one house, the place
was vacated and was not re-occupied until the District Medical Officer
was satisfied that it was free frorh infection. Where the house was in
such an unsatisfactory sanitary condition as to be unfit for human habi-
tation it was vacated, condemned by a Sanitary Board and marked
with the letters U. H. H.* Huts for accommodation of people who
were thus turned out of their houses had already been erected in
different quarters of the City by the Municipality.
Thus, not only were plague cases discovered by means of house-
to-house visitation, and the infection of the disease controlled and
prevented from spreading, but the dark, evil-smelling, ill-ventilated,
ill-drained, over-crowded lanes and alleys of Bombay were explored and
thoroughly cleansed.
The above describes the disinfection of merely individual
dwellings or rooms, but beyond this large disinfecting operations were
undertaken in whole localities both before or after the Committee was
appointed. At one time not less than 5,000 extra coolies were engaged
on this work alone. In Kamatipura a special gang of some 400 coolies
worked on lime-washing and other cleansing works throughout part of
December 1396 and the whole of January. Every house was lime-washed
to the number of 1,344, and something over 100 tons of fresh hot lime
were expended on the work. Dropping plague cases had been occurring
in Kamatipura since the end of September, but it was not until the
latter end of November that they became indigenous, and during this
period the Health Department had been giving the district a thorough
cleansing. Plan No. 8 is a chart showing on a scale of 10 days to one
inch and 10 deaths to one inch the deaths that occurred in the district
on each day. From that chart it will be seen that until November
cases were probably imported from other parts of the City and were not
indigenous, and if Plan No. 2 is referred to, it will be noticed that
Kamatipura was epidemic in October, agreeing with Plan No. 8.
Group Nos. 1 and 2 are considered indigenous, while group No. 3
is considered to be epidemic.
During December and January the population of the district fell
to one-half.
The disinfecting operations were completed about the 10th of
February, after which date it will be seen that plague practically left
the district, and though cases occurred, it is clear that the disinfecting
operations brought about much good. Kamatipura is by virtue of its
low-lying position naturally unhealthy, and its houses are mostly dark,
damp and without ventilation, and most of them have been built on
reclaimed ground ; a more suitable place for the growth and spread of
disease could hardly be found.
 .Unfit for human habitation.
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