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Audheri village—
Population 1,035.
37. Andheri (Sálsette).—This village, a few miles north of Bándra on the
B. B. & 0. I., was overrun with Bombay fugitives,
and the first plague case, though called local, was that
of an East Indian who went daily to Bombay and got
infected there. Considering the hundreds of people who went daily in and out
of Bombay from this village it was impossible for it to escape infection and only
extreme attention prevented a much greater loss of life. Doctor Anderson has not
reported on this or the next villages ; but Mr. C. Hudson, the Assistant Collector,
has made brief reports on them.
Manori village.—·
Population 2,945.
38. Manori (Sálsette).—The first two cases in this Koli village came in
February from Máhim in Bombay and the next in
April from Warli. It was this last case about April
10th which really poisoned the village, as it gave rise
to another in the same house, and then to many in the neighbourhood. The
epidemic was stamped out in the second week in June after a run of two
months. The percentage of local cases on population was 1 . 9.
39. Kiravli (Bassein).—This is a suburb of Bassein town, and the first case
there caught the infection in the Pápdi quarter of Bassein, where plague was
raging.
40. Dativre in Máhim and Vadavli in Sálsette require no remarks, having
no local cases. Shelar, a village about two miles from Bhiwndi, has already
been dealt with in paragraph 21 above.
Tárápur village.—
Population 3,070.
41. Tárápur (Máhim).—This large village is separated only by a creek
from Chinchni and got infection thence. The first
case on February 29th was a Bania, who attended the
funeral of one of his relations in Chinchni : the next
case on March 12th was also apparently due to infection at a funeral and proved
a source of infection to the neighbours. On March 29th a labourer brought
further infection from Chinchni and after this local cases were common. Here
the plague travelled south. The percentage of local cases on population was 3.9.
42. Vadavli (Bassein).—-The first case in this village was really imported
from Khochivre, and was apparently shown as local merely because the mm
had built himself a shed at Vadavli. In several other villages imported cases
have been entered as local because the victim had lived for a few days in the
village before he showed the plague.
43. Nirmal (Bassein).—The one case shown against this village received
infection in the Pápdi quarter of Bassein town.
44. Umbrale (Bassein).—This is practically one with Sopara, and the fact
that it became infected when the plague was raging in the streets of Sopara
needs no explanation, Curiously, however, the first case in this village was im-
ported from Agáshi.
45. Juchandra (Bassein).—-The local case reported was that of a settler
from Bassein who had come eight days before he showed the plague.
Marole village.—·
Population 2,017.
46. Marole (Sálsette).—A certain Christian at the end of February cele-
brated his daughter's wedding and invited a number of
persons to his house from Bombay. A few days after
rats died in the house, and then the master got the
plague and died. This is another of the many cases where apparently healthy
persons have brought infection from an infected place. On the 5th March a
woman, who had been at the wedding, also died, showing that the infection must
have been strong. Three others of the first cases were apparently infected in
Bombay. The percentage of local cases on population was 1. 6.
47. The Andheri hospital was in Gondavli (Sálsette) and all the cases
shown against this village are patients brought there. The cases against
Wasind (Sháhápur) were fugitives from Bombay.
48. Yedvan (Máhim), Kowse (Kalyán), Kalgaon (Umbargaon), with only
imported cases require no remark ; and the Chulne (Bassein) case as explained
by Doctor Anderson was really a Bassein imported case.
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