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APPENDIX B.
Miscellaneous Notes.
Notes by Capt.
Dunbar Stu-
art, D. Ward.
Rats.
(1) Miscellaneous notes.—At No. 628, Girgaum Road, in an upper room on the
2nd floor, there lived one Gessu Naikin, age 25, female ; there are 3 other rooms on
this floor and 4 rooms above. On the 5th January information was given, that
there \vas a woman ill with fever. Dr. D'Avoine and myself went and saw her
about 4 p.m. She had fever, but Dr. D'Avoine did not think it suspicious. We
went to see her again on the 8th January, when he pronounced it to be plague. She
was removed to Hospital at i-30 p.m. that day and died on the 10th January. She
was by herself, lying on the ground, though there was a bed. She was a prostitute
by profession. Whilst disinfecting the room on the 9th, we found a dead rat most
snugly coiled up in a lota in the cooking-room ; the rat had not been dead long,
about two days. This, I think, must have no doubt been the cause as there has been
no plague in the chawl or anywhere near it. One case followed on the 16th, about
two houses off.
(2) On the 21sfc August 1899, one Jothiram Ratnaji, age 30, male Brahmin, was
removed from No. 5, Iveshaji Naik's Chawl, suffering from plague and sent to
Bhoiwada Hospital, where he died on the 23rd. In an empty room, two rooms off from
where the patient was ill, a dead rat was found; had been dead about two days ; I saw
it myself. This is a pure case of the rat having given it to the man. There had been
no other plague oase near him, but in a different chawl, about 50 yards, an imported
case was removed on the 26th July.
(3) In 95,.Kandewady, one Mahadu Vitall, Brahmin, age 40, died of plague
on the 22nd January. A dead rat was found under his bedding on the 24th January
about two days old.
inoculation,
(1) There were 6 gardeners, of whom one was married, all living together, z,<?.,
T of them in a large garden of Mr. Paruck's, 181, Girgam Back Eoad. One Devoo
Vishram, age 30, male, was brought in, suffering of plague, an imported case ; he
died on the 17th September 1899. The contacts, i.e., the above 7 people, were given
the option to be inoculated or go to camp ; they selected the former. The next day,
19th, when we went to inoculate, the girl could not be found, the husband made the
excuse that she was a mill-hand, that he would bring.her the next day j never could
get hold of her. On the 22nd September information was brought that the girl was
ill. On examination she proved to have plague, removed to Maratha Hospital on
22nd September, died on 23rd. The husband stated he was exceedingly sorry that
he did not get her done. It was his own fault, he got her out of our way.
(2) In a house in Harkness Road all the servants were inoculated, with the
exception of the butler's wife, who succumbed to a very malignant type of plague.
An infected
locality.
One Chagunbai Tattya, age 35, female, residing in No. 7 Euwa Gully, Khet-
wadi 6th Cross Lane, came from Bandora on the Isi August, was attacked and died of
plague on the 5th August; next room to her was one Hari Zamala, age 40, male, was
found locked up, died of plague. The neyt room to this one, was a child Vitto
Babaji, 5 years, male, removed to Maharatta Hospital on the 4th, died on the
7th August ; in these very rooms, and in one opposite to them there were 8 deaths
in December and January 1898-99 ; and the two relatives of these, who were sent to
Grant Road Health Camp on the 6th, were sent to Maharatta Hospital at 8-30 p.m.,
9th August, suffering from plague.
Jvotes by Dr.
Contractor.
Cases
show-
ing- the infec-
tious nature
of the disease.
1. In Kakadwadi No. 2, one Deoji M. Maratha, age 40, male, died ot plague
in one of the out-huts in the same compound, on the 8th November 1899. His
widow and 2 children were subsequently inoculated and allowed to remain in the
same compound after action being taken in the infected room: they kept
well, not one of ;them attacked. On llth November, Ranacbandra Raghoji, Sonar,