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Dr. Dady Sett on one occasion wrote as follows :—
I have the honour to inform you about a case of Plague I saw this morning in
my surgery at Mandvi. The patient's name is Baloo Piama, living at Sitaram,
Kubha's chawl, in New Nagpada, Byculla, Of late I am getting in my practice
a peculiar kind of fever without any bubo or cough, but the temperature rises to
103° F. in some cases, and a case turns fatal in a day or two. It is vory difficult,
therefore, to diagnose such cases, and I draw your attention to them. I have
already reported such suspicious cases to the District Plague Officer of B. Ward,
South. I saw to-day one case of Macbai Lalji at Olive Road, Mandvi. There
is no bubo or cough but high fever. I have reported it also to the District Plague
Officer.
The course of
the Epidemic
in each Dis-
trict.
Captain Lock gives the following account of the course of the
epidemic in A. Ward :—
Fort Section.
June 1899. Sporadic cases of Plague— Borah Bazaar Street, Bazaar Gate
Street, and Maruti Street. Number of cases 11.
July. 14 Cases of Plague—Cowasjee Patel Street and Bazaar Gate Street
with one case in Meadows Street, Fort, South.
August. Epidemic amongst rats—3J cases of Plague. Parsee Panchayat
Lane—Cowasjee Patel Street, Commissariat Chawl—Bhoiwar Lane. These Streets
are all within a stone's throw of each other.
September. 32 cases of Plague—Cowasjee Patel Street, Gunbow Street, Borah
Bazaar Street, Pitha Street, Bazaar Gate Street. Plague was still very local and
out of 32, 1.7 were among Parsees. Great mortality of rats.
October. 25 cases of Plague—very little heard of rat mortality except in
actually infected houses. Frere Road arrd Mint Road were attacked for the first
time : 5 in the former and a sequence of cases in the latter, all traceable to an in-
fected stable, which house is mentioned by Mr. DuBoulay in the first year of the
epidemic as having been highly infected. In this month the epidemic made its first
strides leaving the Parsee neighbourhood of Cowasjee Patel Street and Bhoiwar
Lane which wore so troubled during August and September. No reason can be
assigned ; there is certainly very little connection either of society or business with
the latter neighbourhood.
November. 40 cases of Plague. Fort, South, became infected ; 3 cases occurring
in Bell Lane, Ash Lane and Armenian Lane. Frere Road and Mint Road continue
infected and cases spread. Cowasjee Patel Street again re-infected: 3 cases in
one house.
December. 128 cases of Plague—Borah Bazaar Street, again re-infected,
Frere Road, Goa Street, European General Eospital, followers lines severely infected.
Fort, South, and Esplanade continued free.
January. 117 cases of Plague—Frere Road, Mint Road, Mody Street, Borah
Bazaar—a restricted area and quite marked in its general lines of house infection.
Esplanade was attacked : Apollo Bunder Post Office stables, and '21st Bombay Infantry
lines. Cowasjee Patel Street and Parsee Paqohayat Lane, which were so badly hit
during October, were quite free. Infection of Mahars and Mahrattas was very marked
during this month. Clean-living Bhatias and Jains were attacked. Very noticeable
how, instead of single case in infected, houses, 2 and 3 persons were attacked.