?326 [CHAP. X. President-Major-General T. A. Cooke, Commanding Sind District. Members- Mr. R. Giles, Collector. Captain H. C. L. Arnim, Deputy Sanitary Commissioner. Mr. J. Strachan, Municipal Engineer. General Cooke at once threw himself energetically into the work, and on the 25th March the first Military search party went out. All apprehension was soon allayed as to the result, for from first to last not a complaint was ever preferred. A slight decrease from February's figures was observable in March, and from the middle of April the epidemic rapidly subsided. The following are the plague figures, week by week, in Karáchi:- Plague Deaths. Plague Deaths Week ending 10th Dec. 1896 ... 1 Week ending 25th... Mar. 1897 188 ,, 17th ... ,, ,, 9 ,, 1st ... April ,, 192 ,, 24th ,, ,, 21 ,, 8th ... ,, ,, 172 ,, 31st ... ,, ,, 28 ,, 15th ... ,, ,, 115 ,, 7th. ... Jan 1897 103 ,, 22nd ... ,, ,, 127 ,, 14th ,, ,, 159 ,, 29th ,, ,, 86 ,, 21st . . ,, ,, 200 ,, 6th May ,, 65 ,, 28th ,, ,, 181 ,, 13th ,, ,, 52 ,, 4th Feb. ,, 295 ,, 20th ,, ,, 23 ,, 11th ,, ,, 262 ,, 27th ,, ,, 20 ,, 18th ,, ,, 239 ,, 3rd June ,, 29 ,, 25th ,, ,, 217 ,, 10th ,, ,, 7 ,, 4th Mar. ,, 197 ,, 17th ,, ,, 1 ,, 11th ,, ,, 207 ,, 24th ,, ,, 2 ,, 18th ,, ,, 189 ,, Karáchi District. In the Karáchi District itself, outside of the City, only 238 cases and 178 deaths from . plague occurred in all. Of these, only 53 and 41 were local cases and deaths. The disease only took root in Tatta, with which its Railway Station Jungshahi must be included, and in Kotri. Tatta is a town of about 10,000 inhabitants, about 13 miles from Jungshahi. It is a favourite resort of the upper classes of Karachi, and is on the main route to Cutch. From the middle of December to the week ending the 19th February, 31 cases and 21 deaths, all imported, had occurred in Tatta. The influx then appears to have ceased, and no more deaths were reported till plague broke out locally in the week ending the 26th March. Thereafter the outbreak was local, and practically ceased early in May. Karáchi City. Second Epidemic (April 1898-August 1898).-The cause of the second outbreak is obscure. Karachi was declared free from August 1897. On the 28th March 1898 a case occurred, and on the 31st another. But the City was prepared. The former Plague Committee, with General Cooke at its head, had never been dissolved, and immediately set itself to organize measures to combat the disease. The measures in force during the second epidemic differed in two essential, and several minor, respects from those which had been employed during the first : (1) Widely extended compulsory evacuation; (2) An improved system of voluntary evacuation, known as voluntary camps. Inoculation on a small scale, disinfection under English Medical officers, &c., were amongst the minor contrasts. The Plague Committee was composed of- President-Major-General T. A. Cooke, Commanding Sind District. Members- Mr. E. Giles, Acting Commissioner in Sind. Lieut.-Colonel J. McCloghry, I. M. S., Civil Surgeon. Mr. J. F. Brunton, Acting Secretary and Engineer to the Municipality