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By Dr. Munshi,
(1) House No. 184, Chimna Butcher Street in Khara Talao Section.-—It, is a
four-storied house, occupied by Dakni Mohamedans. The ground floor has 4 room*
absolutely dark, damp, dirty and without means of sufficient light and air. The
floor is entirely kucha and out of order. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors are also
ill-ventilated and their rooms are all made of wooden partitions, the floors imper-
fectly cemented. On the 25th of February 1900, there occurred a plague case
on the 2nd floor, the infected room and 2 adjoining rooms were thoroughly
disinfected and closed for 10 days. 2nd case occurred on the 26th of the same month
and the same procedure of evacuation and disinfection was carried out. 3rd case
occurred on the 27th of the same month, 4th case was discovered on the 3rd of March
1900, 5th case was detected on the 7th of the same month. All the preventive
measures were used in the above cases as usual. The whole house was entirely
evacuated on the 7th of March 1900, disinfected and closed. It was re-occupied on
the 30th of March 1900, and since there has been no plague case in this house.
(2) House No. 15, Nizam Street in Bhuleshwar.—It is a two-storied house
occupied by Kokni Mohamedans. This house has one side gully. Ground floor
has two big halls, the floor is stone paved j but they are entirely dark and without
proper means of light and ventilation. First floor has only one big hall, well cement-
ed but imperfectly ventilated. Second floor has one hall and 3 rooms which are also
ill-ventilated and made of wooden partition. On the 4th March 1900, there occur-
red a Plague case on the ground floor, the infected room was evacuated and thoroughly
disinfected. The second and the third cases were discovered on the 5th of March
1900 on the 2nd floor, and the 4th case on the 6th of the same month on the same
floor. Finding that the progress of the epidemic was very rapid, the whole house was
entirely evacuated with great' difficulty, immediately disinfected, cleaned and closed
for a fortnight. The result was very successful as there has been no case of plague
in this house since.
(3) House No. 60, Nizam Street in Bhuleshww:—It is a four-storied house in-
habited by Kokni and Dakni Mahomedans. There occurred 8 cases of plague in
this house and the history stands thus :—On the 29th of August 1899 there occurred
a plague case on the 2nd floor, the infected room and 2 adjoining rooms were
immediately disinfected, and closed for 10 days as usual. After an interval of
4 months the 2nd case was discovered on the 4th floor, on the 27th December 1890.
The same procedure of disinfection and evacuation was again resorted to.
3rd case occurred on
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Seeing that the house was very badly infected all through and the disease made
its progress rapidly, the whole house was entirely evacuated on 6th April 1900,
thoroughly disinfected and closed for 10 days. The result was very successful as
there has been no fresh case of plague since it has been re-occupied.
(4) House No. 142, Erskine Road, Khara Talao:—li is a four-storied big house
occupied by Memons and Dakni Mohamedans. There occurred 8 cases of plague
in this big house on the following dates:—
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