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TABLE No. I.
MONTHS.
February ..
March ..
April ..
May ..
June ..
July ..
Tota
NUMBER OP VESSELS
INSPECTED.
203
200
288
249
160
156
1,354
2,313
3,819
4,816
5,206
1,707
947
18,898
2,515
4,118
5,104
5,455
1,957
1,103
20,252
NUMBER οτ PERSONS INSPECTED.
Passengers.
44,451
38,698
27 ,805
25,833
16,227
10,677
163,691
5,387
19,383
10,063
10,768
3,196
1,042
49,837
Crews.
8,299
13,008
11,990
11,946
8,798
8,83-3
62,876
14,806
20,855
30,151
32,851
12,4,37
6,600
117,760·
Total.
49,838
58,080
37,867
36,601
19,423
11,710
213,528
23,105
33,863
42,141
44,797
21,235
15,493
180,636
72,943
91,913
80,008
81,398
40,658
27,214
394,164
REGISTERED NTTHBEB, OF
PEBSONS KEJECTED.
Passen-
gors.
153
181
189
155
89
49
816
39
155
70
46
310
Crcwe.
22
32
70
29
9
12
174
7
29
9
12
57
Total.
153
181
189
155
89
49
816
22
32
70
29
9
12
174
175
213
259
184
08
01
990
TABLE No. II.
For the week ending
13th October 1896
20th
do.
27th
do.
3rd November 1896
10th
do.
17th
do.
24th
do.
1st December 1896
8th
do.
15th
do.
22nd
do.
29th
do.
5th January 1897
12th
do.
19th
do.
26th
do.
2nd February 1897
9th
do.
16th
do.
23rd
do.
2nd farcii 1897
Official
number
of
Plague
deaths
reported.
45
53
72
49
51
53
67
64
173
259
226
390
348
335
470
446
516
745
845
778
692
Total
Mortality
for each
weak.
634
606
098
668
623
704
7CO
772
1,051
],310
3,410
1,853
1,711
1,638
3,758
J,721
1,645
3,911
1,728
1,650
3,484
Mean
number
of Deaths
of last
ive years
for tach
week.
467
448
44'2
414
421
434
420
432
431
445
443
449
474
458
479
493
495
516
544
518
522
l'or the week ending
9th March 1897
16th
do.
23rd
do.
30th
do.
6th- April 1897
13th
do.
20th
do.
27th
do.
4th May 1897
llth
do,
18th
do.
25th
do.
1st June 1897
8th
do.
15th
do.
22nd
do.
29th
do.
6th July 1897
13th
'do,
20th
do.
27th
do.
Official
number
of
Plague
deaths
•eported.
590
497
438
496
399
373
310
195
114
98
67
56
34
34
26
39
13
7
4
9
14
Total
Mortality
for each
week
1,326
3,258
3,339
1,141
1,007
970
836
671
638
568
547
£41
500
585
531
501
549
550
577
678
770
Mean
number
of Deaths
of last
ive year»
for each
week.
520
506
50 &
520
527
614
685
698
577
565
3/4
55-0
517
615
485
440
441
467
463
494
520
N.B.—Plague officially declared epidemic in Bombay on 13th October 1896.
The merest glance at Table No. I will convey to the mind a conception of
the enormous passenger traffic dealt with under the Government organization,
but it cannot give more than an approximate idea of the difficulties and complica-
tions arising from the conditions of a traffic that necessitated inspection at many
different centres in a very large harbour, at various places along an extensive
foreshore, and within wet docks where the necessities of tidal conditions had to
be reckoned with. The admirable and successful Police and Customs organiza-
tion necessary to control the traffic and ensure that no person evaded inspection,
the complex arrangements necessary for the separate examination of the two
sexes with retiring rooms for more private inspection, and the carrying out of a
compulsory and very severe individual inspection without offending caste pre-
judices and with as little inconvenience to the travelling public and shipping
companies as possible, none of these important details can be shown in a return
or properly appreciated except by the Government which directed them and the
officials who carried them out.