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west and centre of the Deccan districts. It includes the districts
of Nasik, Poona, Satara, Ahmednagar, and the northern portion
of the Kolhapur State. Khandesh and the eastern portion of the
Deccan districts escaped altogether or show only very few indigen-
ous cases. The southern districts of Sholapur, Kaladgi, Dharwar,
Belgaum, and Kanara, the southern portion of the Kolhapur State,
and the Portuguese possession of Goa remained practically free from
plague. The third division extends over the whole of Gujarat, north
of Surat district, excluding Cutch, which forms the fourth division.
Indigenous cases occurred at a number of places scattered widely
over Gujarat, the only serious outbreak was at Palanpur. There was
a very virulent epidemic in Cutch.
The Konkan
Coast the chief
seat of the
epidemic.
Apart from Poona and Cutch, the first division is the only one in
which the districts show a number of reported cases in excess of
one per one thousand of the population according to the census of
1891. The figures are-

Number of reported cases
per 100,000 of the
population.
Thana district                       ...              
550
Janjira State                          ...            
351
Surat district                          ...           
331
Kolaba district                       ...             
261
Navsari division (Baroda territory)                   
176
Thana.
Kolaba.
Daman.
In Thana district indigenous cases occurred in 60 places, and
more than 100 such cases in 11 places. The disease was worst at
Bandra, Bhiwindi, Bassein, and Kurla, all near the city of Bombay.
In the Surat district also indigenous cases occurred in 53 places. The
epidemic also was worst at Bulsar on the sea coast, and was also bad
at Mugod and Rander. In the Kolaba district the disease was
worst at Revdanda and Alibag. It spread to 29 other places. This
division of the epidemic includes also a virulent outbreak at the small
Portuguese possession of Daman between the Thana and Surat
districts. The plague was worst in the portion of the territory known
as Little Daman, and it is said that here more than one-third of
the population perished.
Poona City.
In the second division the city of Poona was the principal seat
of the disease. Here the reported number of cases up to the 27th
August amounted to 2,543, or 16 per thousand of the population, and
the actual number of cases is known to have been much greater.
The late Mr. Rand, who was in charge of plague operations in the
city, estimated on the basis of total mortality from all causes that the
number of deaths from plague were certainly not less than 2,900
in the city itself (excluding the cantonment and suburbs), giving