222        [CHAP.  VIII.  NASIK. DISTRICT.]
Though a large number of the places stricken during the first epidemic remained
free on the second occasion, all the important towns were attacked a second time. The infection,
wherever traceable, appears to have been due to importation, and there is no history of a true
recrudescence. The following are the monthly figures for the second epidemic :-
Mouth.
NÁSIK   DISTRICT. 
Population - 
813,582.
NÁSIK TOWN. 
Population - 
24,429.







Cases.
Deaths.
Cases.
Deaths.
August
1898,
4 weeks
212
155
...
...
September
,,
5     "
717
535
...
...
October
,,
4     "
563
352
...
...
November
,,
4     "
191
123
...
...
December
,,
5     "
210
170
...

January
1899,
4     "
107
06
18
13
February
,,
4     "
266
211
85
70
March
,,
5     "
400
335
210
169
April
,,
4     "
150
134
111
98
May
,,
4     "
98
08
46
40
Total
...
...
2,923
2,180
470
390
The figures for the month of May 1899 and two weeks of June were encouraging
enough, but by the end of June it was clear from the returns that the Násik District was
doomed to suffer still another epidemic, which has eclipsed in virulence, if not in duration,
the one preceding it. Through July 1899 a steady increase took place, but with the
advent of August the rise became much more rapid. The returns for the fourth week of
September were 1,051 cases-805 deaths, the figures for the whole month being 4,345
cases-3,268 deaths. Thereafter the disease rapidly declined, and at the present time
(November) has almost wholly subsided.
Over 90 places were attacked throughout the whole District; the monthly figures
for the whole District being : -
Mouth.
Cases.
Deaths.
REMARKS.
June        
1899
129
111

July          
,,
714
661

August       
,,
1,008
1,460

September 
,,
4,345
3,268

October     
,,
2,316
1,882