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The  following  statement   shows   the   gradual   spread,  with   the   source  of infection
where  known :-
Táluka.
Villages.
Date of first reported cases.
Source of infection.
Jalgaon   ...
Jalgaon
10th December 1897
 Sholápur     (probably).
Do.   ...
Pimprála   ...
4th February 1898
Jalgaon.
Jámner    ...
Neri
4th February 1898
Do.
Jálgaon   ...
Bholána
11th February 1898
Unknown.
Jámner    ...
Neridigar   ...
11th February 1898
Do.
Do.     ...
Talegaon    ...
25th February 1898
Do.
Chálisgaon
Pilkhod      
...4th March 1898
Do.
Jámner    ...
Málpimpri   ..
11th March 1898
Do.
Do.     ...
Samrod          
11th March 1898
Do.
Amalner  ...
Nagaum Khurd
15th March 1898
Do.
Jámner   ...
Shelgaon     
...18th March 1898
Do.
Dhulia    ...
Shirud        
..22nd March 1898
Do.

	
Each of these villages, as soon as indigenous plague was  discovered  in it,  was at once
completely evacuated and disinfected.
The following table shows the number of cases in the District and in Jalgaon Town
during the successive months of the epidemic, together with the number of villages infected :-
			
			
					
Month.
Number of  villages infected
KHANDESH DISTRICT
(excluding Jalgaon Town).
JALGAON TOWN.


Cases.
Deaths.
Cases.
Deaths.
October 1896 to December 1897. 
...
*40 
*18


December 1897 
...
5
4 
63
52
January 1898
1
5
4
46
44
February 1898
4
74
61
3
3
March 1898
11
117
90
1
1
April 1898
4
15
14
...
...
Total
256
191
113
100

* All imported.
From the 22nd April 1898  no   case  occurred  till   December   1898,   when  the disease
appeared in a village adjoining one  of those  infected  in   the previous  fair  weather,  and
resulted in 25 cases-21 deaths during the week ending 16th December  1898.    The   returns
for the following week were blank.
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