3
The total number of oases imported at each place during the above four
months was as shown below :—
Kutiyána ...
Jáninagar ...
Mángrol
Wadhwán Civil Station.
Porbandar ...
Khambháliya
Saláya
Verá val
Mahuva
Bhávnagar ...
Total
4
4
4
3
3
1
1
2
2
1
25
8. February, however, saw a large increase in the number of such imported
cases,
owing to the plague having broken out
Imported cases m February. Karáchi, whence people fled in all directions in large
numbers. The cases imported in Káthiáwár during February are returned as
under :—
Kutiyána
Jodiya
Porbandar
Jámnagar
Saláya
Una
Jafrabad
Bhávnagar
Total
1
29
6
3
2
2
1
2
46
Indigenous cases.
At Jodiya.
9. It was in the 2nd week of this month that indigenous cases were dis-
covered both at Jodiya and Wadhwán Civil Station.
The following are the details of the outbreak at Jodiya
as given by Colonel Kennedy, the Administrator of
Jámnagar, in his report dated 14th February 1897 : —
"A day or two before the 26th of last month a Luwána and his wife came from Karachi.
On the 2nd instant, the man was found to be suffering from bubonic and he died on 3rd instant.
He had probably been suffering for 3 or 4 days before his case came to light and there is no
reason to take this as anything but an imported case. On the 8th instant, the wife was found to
be suffering and she died on 9th. Her case must I think be taken as indigenous as at least 12
days to 14 days must have elapsed since her arrival from Karáchi, though possibly she may have
had the germs in her system before her arrival. In the meantime the daughter of this couple
came to condole over her father's death. She came from Jambuda about 8 miles from Jodiya
and yesterday morning she was found to be suffering from high fever. She was well on the
12th instant for she went to the river to bathe. This morning clear bubonic symptoms
showed themselves and she was removed from her place of temporary isolation to the plague
camp where she is under treatment. Hers is unquestionably an indigenous case. The house was
closed and watched so that no one could go in pending further instructions from me. My instruc-
tions were that the house itself and those on each side should be unroofed, floors dug up and the
whole fumigated until I could personally inspect the place. I went over this morning to Jodiya
and inspected the house and its surroundings, and have ordered the complete demolition of the
house and burning of materials, and the cleansing and ventilation of the neighbouring houses as
above."
The prompt and stringent measures adopted had the effect of immediately
stamping out the plague from Jodiya and no fresh case occurred since.
Indigenous cases at Wadh-
wán Civil Station.
10. As regards the appearance of plague at the
Wadhwán Civil Station, the following short account
will furnish necessary details as to its origin and other
particulars :—
On the 11th February a man, his wife and a female child of 4 years were
found suffering from fever in a public lodging house. The man bad bubonic
swellings but though these symptoms were absent from his wife and child, the
Agency Surgeon whom I deputed to the place reported that they were plague
cases. The child died soon after. Prom enquiries it transpired that another