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TABLE E.
COMPARATIVE PLAGUE MORTALITIES OF BOMBAY AND THE MOFUSSIL
EPIDEMICS, 1896-98.
City.
Population, 1891.
Accepted Population during Week of Highest Mortality.
Highest Mortality.
Mortality on Bombay Basis, 750,000.
Week.
Average day.
Week.
Day.
Sholapur
6,154
30,782
1897 Nov. 26th-Dec. 3rd
448
64
10,909
1,558
Poona II
149,793
74,895
1897 Oct. 29th-Nov. 5th
460 ...
66
4,600
657
Karachi
97,009
48,500
1897 Jan. 28th-Feb. 4th
295 ...
42
4,562
651
Bombay I
821,764
470,000
1897 Jan. 12th-
19th
1,472
210
2,350
336
Surat
108,631
54,315
1897 Nov. 5th-
12th
150 ...
21
2,083
297
Bombay II
821,764
750,000
1898 March 11th- 18th
1,611
230
1,611
230
The comparative statement, Table E, shows that as regards intens-
ity, in proportion to the estimated population at the time, the last
epidemic in Bombay was less severe than the preceding one ; that
it was about the same as the Surat epidemic ; a little more than one-third
of the intensity of the Karachi and the second Poona epidemics, and not
much more than one-seventh as acute as the Sholapur epidemic. In
the case of each of these outbreaks the figure taken as the maximum
daily death is the daily average of the highest week. Apart from the
law that the larger the population the smaller the proportion of mortal-
ity, Bombay's comparatively mild mortality is doubtless in great
measure due to the greater comparative cleanness of the city. At the
same time a share in so favourable a result may be fairly claimed for the
vigour and completeness of the measures taken to combat the Plague.