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For the week ending 5th February there were 46 cases in Bándra muni-
cipal limits.
For the week ending 12th February there were 77 cases.
For the week ending 19th February there were 77 cases.
The highest number of cases was 122 for the week ending 26th February.,
and 111 deaths.
For the week ending 5th March there were SS cases.
For the week ending 12th March there were 82 cases.
For the week ending 19th March there were 79 cases.
On the 17th March we had 10 deaths. We never had double figures again
after this. The improvement then set in rapidly. On the 1st April and two
following days we had only one death a clay.
For the week ending 7th April we had 8 deaths.
For the week ending 14th April we had 6 deaths.
For the week ending 21st April we had 5 deaths.
For the week ending 28th April we had 1 death.
48. After that we had two cases only, and then plague disappeared.
Amongst the last of the cases was a Surti butler on Pali Hill, who had only
arrived from Delhi fourteen clays previously and had only been to Bombay once
or twice.
49. , Latterly the plague was of a much milder type, and many of the
patients recovered.
50. Within 400 yards of Dáñela on the other side of the creek is the
village of Tara. Strange to say, plague did not break out there till the end of
April, when Dáñela was quite free. As I recognised the importance of getting
rid of plague from the villages on the Bándra frontier, I welcomed patients
from the surrounding villages and we gladly took them into our hospital. We
took several patients from several adjoining villages.
51. The Plague Committee also sent us suspicious cases from the Santa
Cruz Railway Station. They sent us many cases of ordinary fever, but only one
case turned into plague, and he died.
52. As many Dáñela Kolis were encamped at Santa Cruz, I gladly took
patients from there into our hospital.
53. In order to disinfect Dánda and other villages I obtained the services
of six R. A. gunners, 1 non-commissioned officer and 5 men. These men I
specially employed in disinfecting Dáñela. First they washed each house with
corrosive sublimate (4 ozs. to 40 galls. water). This they did themselves with
the assistance of an attendant. Then each house was limewashed by the owner
with whitewash supplied to him free. Each house had the roof taken off, but
those which had double stories had only a few tiles off. I did not pull up the
floors because I believe it is worse than useless.
54. The expense of employing European soldiers is almost prohibitive. At
the time I got those mentioned I could have gob no other good men to do the
work. The work was dangerous and it was well done. The soldiers liked the
work very much and were sorry to go back to barracks. I think it is a pity
they are not allowed to do the work for less pay and allowances, as 1 am sure
they would gladly do it. I had the soldiers for a little over a month, and during
that time they disinfected every house in Dánda, about 400 in number.
55. I am inclined to think that in the case of all one-storied houses if the
I regret I did not see Dr. roof is taken off allowing the inside to be exposed to
Dyson's report before as to the sun for a month or so, that is quite sufficient. In
disinfecting the clothes.
Dánda every house had the roof off for more than a
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month except the tiled houses.
58. Several boat-loads of Dánda people returned at the end of April from
Alibag and Thal. They were put in quarantine camps, but caused much trouble
as they had not been used to plague discipline. Any site, however good,
which I selected for them was of course objected to in the usual annoying manner.
However, no plague cases occurred, and I allowed all to go back on 1st May. None