SHOLAPUR DISTRICT.] 263
SHOLAPUR TOWN
Population 62,329
Month.
Cases.
Deaths.
REMARKS.
October 1897-4 weeks
211
156
Before evacuation.
November " -4 "
873
714
December " -5 "
1,490
1,244
January 1898-4 "
47
55
After evacuation.
February " -4 "
18
18
Total
2,639
2,187

The mortality for the 4 weeks preceding, and that of the 4 weeks succeeding, evacua-
tion, i.e., November 1897 with January 1898, may here be compared:-
Mortality for 4 weeks preceding 714
Do. do. succeeding 55
With the evacuation of Sholpur Town the second stage of the epidemic may be said to
end.
Of the third stage, there is little to say. The figures record the rapid subsidence of
the disease, and in the period of a few weeks its total cessation: for, imported cases excepted,
Sholpur Town was practically free from plague from the beginning of February 1898.