kaira DISTRICT.]
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cally carried out, but the following week's figures (20 cases—15 deaths) caused the Collector
to order its complete evacuation, which was completed by the 21st February 1899. There-
after the weekly figures were as follows : —
Week ending
Dak or Town
Population— 9,487
24th
February
1899.
12 7
3rd
March
1899.
9 7
10th
March
1899.
10 8
17th
March
1899.
16 11
24th
March
1899.
15 13
‡
31st
March
1899.
1 9
7th
April
1890.
2
2
14th
April
1899.
1 ...
21st
April
1899.
•
1
28th
April
1899.
* Evacuation complete on 21st February 1899. †Rise due to people reluming to the town to dig up the
floors of their houses : this was stopped. ‡ The Collector is evidently not satisfied with the weekly
figures, for he writes (28th April 1899) : " I am giving my personal attention to this town, and already
there is an improvement." § Fall attributed by Collector to removal of 3 Camps to better sites.
|| Re-occupation permitted.
The places in the Thasra Táluka which suffered most severely are given in the following
statement :—
Town or Village.
D alcor ...
Kaisar ...
Vanoti ...
Dcdamuwadi
Kuni ...
Menpura
...
...
...
...
..
...
Popula-
tion.
9,487
2,935
1,715
174
1,652
543
Date of first case.
25- 1-99
17-12-98
3-12-98
8-12-98
About 23-12-98
10-1-99
.....
...
...
...
Date of last case.
About 10-4-99
20-1-99...
17-1-99...
16-1-99 ..
2-1-99...
20-2-99...
··...
...
...
...
...
Total
number of
cases.
98
54
62
31
80
47
Total
number of
deaths.
73
47
43
22
57
33
Kapadvanj.
Population—14,805.
The town of Kapadvanj was found to be infected about the middle of February. Its popula-
tion, according to the census of 1891, is 14,805, but it had an
estimated population of over 17,000 at the end of December 1898.
The ward system and other usual measures were in force, but
there was insufficient supervision. At first only three streets were evacuated ; others being
emptied as the examination of the daily returns showed the occurrence of suspicious deaths.
But in many cases the people left their streets voluntarily. Besides the Municipal Hospital,
the Hindu Mahajans and the Borahs started their own private hospitals. For the former a
philanthropic lady, Shetani Jadav, widow of Manilal Samaldas, gave a donation of Rs. 1.000.
Later, to suit the convenience of the people camping out, temporary hospitals were opened
in the fields at convenient centres. Without waiting for the abatement of the epidemic,
working parties were set to work to ventilate all the houses in the infected localities on
the same lines as before. This work was supervised in the beginning by Khun Saheb
Pherozeshah J. Taleyarkhan, Acting Subordinate Judge. The immunity of the Borah
streets is worthy of remark, as they are in close propinquity to the street first infected. The
Borahs were not turned out of their houses, but were compelled to vacate the ground
floors.
In the week ending 10th February one village in the Nadiád Táluka and one in Bolsád,
low down on the Máhi, were reported as infected. The Collector reports :—
" In. the former case the infection had been carried from Thásra Táluka, in the latter
from Baroda territory on the other side of the Main. Besides these villages themselves,
I ordered the evacuation of some of those around Kanvadi. This had the effect of checking
the spread of plague to the adjoining villages. When Dakor was infected, I similarly
induced the people of the villages between it and Thásra to camp out, which they quietly
did, so that with two exceptions they all escaped infection. These two exceptions were