4 [CHAP. I., PT. I.
1897-98.

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Serial No.
Place.
Population.
Duration of epidemics.
Cases.
Deaths.
Percentage of Mortality on Population.
From
To
1
Bombay .. ...
806,144
June 1897
May 1898
17,997
16,532
2.01
2
Poona (including
Cantonment and
Suburbs).
161,696
July 1897
March 1898
6,676
5,043
3.12
3
Karchi ... ...
97,009
April 1898
June 1898
3,008
2,376
2.41
4
Sholapur ... ...
61,564
October 1897
February 1898
2,539
2,187
3.50
5
Mandvi (Cutch) ...
38,155
April 1897
August 1897
4,295
3,808
9.98
6
Sangli State ...
18,298
February 1898
July 1898
549
500
2.73
7
Karad (Satara Dist.)
12,085
July 1897
January 1898
1,452
1,107
8.38
8
Kale ( ,, )...
4,431
September 1897
January 1898
573
465
10.49
9
Supne ( ,, )...
2,068
September 1897
November 1897
325
212
10.25
10
Magod(Surat Dist),
2,063
March 1897
May 1897
273
210
10.12
11
Varunje (Satara Dist.)
928
September 1897
November 1897
159
146
15.73
12
Karve ( ,, )
851
September 1897
December 1897
437
352
41.36
13
Devi Khindi( ,, )..
690
September 1897
November 1897
122
105
15.21
14
Vadkhel ( ,, )
343
September 1897
December 1897
93
83
24.19
The total numbers of cases and deaths reported throughout the Presidency for this
Second Period were--
4th June 1897 to 3rd June 1898.
Cases, 75,813-Deaths, 61,220.
THIRD PERIOD.
3rd June 1898 to 2nd June 1899.
We have already noticed that during June and July 1897, a general and almost total
subsidence of plague occurred throughout the Presidency. Some Districts were free ;
others indeed still returned plague cases, but these were but the dying embers of' rapidly
subsiding epidemics. Other Districts again had so far not been attacked. But in no
case was an epidemic beginning or were the figures rising.
To a considerable extent, though in a far less degree, the same was again true in June
and July 1898. In many Districts plague had ceased altogether; in others it was
subsiding.
In the first category were Ahmednagar, Khandesh, Nasik, and Sholapur Districts in
the Presidency proper; the Hyderabad and Shikarpur Districts in Sind; and Aundh, Janjira,
Palaupur, and Reva Kantha amougst the Native States. In the second category were the
Surat, Thana, Poona, Satara, Kolaba, and Ratnagiri Districts in the Presidency proper; the
Karchi District in Sind; and Sangli State.