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Mudd village—
Population 1,359.
49 Mudd (Sálsette).—This village was spelt Mudha or Mudh in some
previous reports. Although no imported cases ave
shown against this village there is no doubt that it
got a double dose of infection from outside : first from
Bombay and then from Vesáve. In March a man came from Bombay to stay m
a house in the Kunbi quarter : in four or five days rats began to die in the house,
and although the inmates immediately went into sheds one of them got the
plague. The visitor was still there, apparently well, and only left after the case
occurred. This seems a very decisive instance of a healthy man carrying
infection with him somehow. The Koli quarter was infected about the same
time by fugitive rioters from Vesáve who were harboured in some of the houses.
It is curious that in this case too rats began to die as soon as the visitors arrived,
though none of the latter are said to have actually had the plague on them.
The percentage of cases on population was 4.4.
Mahal village—
Population 1,328.
50. Máhul (Sálsette).-—One of the hamlets of this village was infected by
an Agri woman who caught plague in .Bombay and
brought it to Máhul on March 19th. There were
several subsequent cases in this family ; but as the
villagers had meantime cleared out into sheds the infection did not spread. In
Máhul itself the first case on May 18th was that of a Customs peon who got
plague at Matunga, and the next case was infected by him. There was only
one other case and the percentage oh population of both hamlets was only 0'8.
51. Jaweli (Kalyán) and Asangaon (Shahapur) record only one imported
case apiece, and Samdor (Bassin) with two local cases is almost a part of Bassein,
and got its infection thence. The first case was really imported from Bassein.
Nagaon village—
Population 1,170.
52. Nagaon (Bussein).—This village is not far from Bassein and the first
case of plague in it occurred in the person of a Koli
woman who used to take fish to Bassein and Kho-
chivre. Rats then began to die in the vicinity of the
infected house and as usual with Koli villages the infection spread rapidly.
53. Shahad (Kalyán), Kirol (Sálsette) and Ghát Kopar (Sálsette) had only
imported cases and require no special notice,
Kolhe Kalyán Village—
Population 2,042.
54. Kolhe Kalyán (Sálsette).—This village, also called Kalina, is close to
Kurla and supplies the mills there with some of their
employés. Of the first three cases, two, that of a
Mhár named Pandu and of a Christian named Luis
were due to infection contracted in Kurla, where these people went daily ; but
of the first in time, that of a Christian named Bastiao, I can get no further
information than that rats died in his house shortly before his illness. Like the
others he probably went to Kurla for work ; but it is of course possible that
rats actually brought the infection into Kolhe Kalyán as they undoubtedly did
in Old Kurla. The percentage of cases on population was only 0.7.
55. Kalwa (Sálsette} and Jaosai (Kalyán) had only imported cases from
Thána and Bombay, respectively.
Pamtembhi village—popu-
lation 1,497.
56. Pamtembhi (Máhim)—The first case on April 5th was that of a Khoja
who came sick from Chinchni, but was driven out
next day by the villagers. On the 10th the Kumbhár,
in whose house the Khoja had stayed, died of the
piague ana on the 10th and 17th four other cases occurred in that house and the
neighbouring ones. The people were then turned out by me and Mr. Leggatt,
but four or five cases occurred in the sheds. After an interval of freedom
lasting nearly a month a woman got plague while cleaning an infected house
and gave it to a friend. The percentage of cases on population was only 0.8.
Rai Murdhe
village—
population 2,594.
57. Rai Murdhe (Sálsette}.—*This double village is between Bháyndar and
Bassein and had therefore every chance of infection.
The first cases in Rái caught infection in Bháyndar.
The percentage of cases on population was only 0.5.
58. Uttán (Sálsette).—This village lies between Rái and Manori. and the
two cases were infected in those villages.