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59. Málavni (Sálsette.)—The first case was that of a cartman who returned
from a trip ; but it is not known where he was infected. He infected an
attendant, and the attendant, a relation.
60. Tilling (Bassein.)—The first case was the servant of a Sopara merchant
who got the plague in Sopara and brought it to Tulling, whither his master
had fled.
61. Nila More (Bassein).—The first case here was that of a woman who
got plague in Sopara and brought it to Nila More.
Glaivli village—
Population 888.
62. Ghivli (Mahim).—This village is only about a mile from Tárápur and
got infected on April 29th, when plague was bad in that
place. I visited the village at once, but was unable to
find out how the first victim had got infected : however,
in spite of the declaration of the villagers that they kept quarantine against Tara-
pur, there can be no doubt that these hard drinking Mangelas must have gone into
Tárápur for liquor. The village was turned out, and the residents of the infected
neighbourhood were made to live on one side of the village, while the rest of
the people went to the other. All the cases after the first occurred in the
sheds, and almost exclusively in the families from the infected neighbourhood.
At the very commencement I had these people's clothes disinfected with carbolic
acid in my presence ; but this measure did not prevent the occurrence of nearly a
score of cases among the group. It was somewhat disheartening as they
protested that the washing was intended to poison the clothes, and the results
did not confute this theory. The percentage of cases on population was 3.2.
63. Each of the next six places show one or two local without any imported
cases ; but in every instance the infection of the first case at least was acquired
in an infected place. At Dongari (Sálsette) the infection was acquired in Bassein,
at Kawlar Khurd (Bassein) in Bassein, at Koprad (Bassein) in A'gáshi, at Kudan
(Máhim) in Tárápur, at Virar (Bassein) in Sopara, and at Goregaon (Sálsette)
in Andheri (first case) and Bombay (second case). The Murbád case came from
Kalyán.
Nanale village.
64. Nanale (Sálsette).—The first case here was that of a Koli woman whose
husband was lying sick of the plague in Trombay ;
and the two next were also cases of plague contracted
in Trombay, to which the sufferers daily resorted. They seem all in fact to have
been Trombay fugitives living in Nanale.
Ju Village—
Population 1216.
63. Ju (Sálsette).—The first recorded case was on April 24th in a Christian
house ; but Mr. Hudson, the Assistant Collector, states
that there had been three suspicious cases among the
Christians before Easter (which fell on the 18th). If there were cases of plague
the mysterious deaths of rats which Dr. Anderson records as happening before
the case of the 24th are easily explained without recourse to the theory of a
" Rat's Progress," touched on in my 16th paragraph. The case of the 24th is
interesting, as the owner of the house in which the rats died left it for ten days
and was quite free from plague until ha rashly returned to the house before it
had been disinfected. In the neighbouring hamlet of Tára the first case was of
a Christian who was constantly going to the badly infected Dánda : the
next was a Dánda Khoja. The infection spread from the Christians to the
Kolis, and when Mr. Hudson pulled clown the first infected Koli hut, he found
the floor undermined by bandicoots. These were no doubt the channel of com-
munication between the Christians and Kolis. The percentage of local cases
011 population was 1.3.
66. Passing over Kothiwle (Kalyán) with only one imported case, the last
seven villages on the list each show one or two local cases only ; but the explana-
tion is that given for the six villages in paragraph 63 above. The cases at Anjur
(Bhiwndi) were apparently infected by fugitives from Bombay who settled there,
though no case among those fugitives was reported ; those at Mardes (Bassein)
in Bombay ; that at Akshe (Sálsette) was probably not plague ; of those at Gas
(Bassein) one was infected in Sopára and the other in Thána ; the Vile-padle
(Sálsette) cases were those of two servants of Bombay Pa'rsis : the first Girinj