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Assistant Surgeon and four Hospital Assistants. Since that date the Assistant
Surgeon has been in charge, and as the operations are still in progress, it is
unnecessary at present to give statistical results of the work done. Two cases
of plague were detected and both recovered under treatment.
The passengers and others who came within the operation of the orders as
a rule submitted complacently to the restrictions imposed.
Oases.
In dealing with cases that actually occurred the
orders were—
(1) to enforce segregation in the case of the sick ;
(2) to segregate and keep under observation for a period of at least
8 days those who had in any way been in communication with the sick ;
(3) to disinfect or destroy any articles that might have become infected ;
(4) to disinfect and throw open to the sun and air the house occupied
by the sick.
(If it was only a hut it was to be burned;
Sub-divisional officers and Mámlatdárs were directed to go immediately to
every case reported, and see that the orders were carried out.
The only instance in which the plague continued for any length of time in
spite of this treatment was in the Shindewádi cases in Málsiras Táluka (Nos. 12
to 18) detailed below. The District Deputy Collector was quickly on the spot
and saw that the orders were promptly and thoroughly carried out. The place of
segregation was frequently changed, every article that could not be properly
disinfected was destroyed, new clothes were given to those segregated, and they
were fed with food brought to them from the village and not out of any stock
they had themselves. In spite of these, six deaths occurred in the month that
followed the first death. With one exception they were confined to one family.
These six cases with four at Hotgi (Nos. 5, 6, 7 and 8) were the only indigenous
cases that occurred in the district.
The following is a brief record of the cases that occurred in the district :—
Case No. 1
Case No. 2
Case No. 3
Gase No. 4
Cases Nos. 5, 6, 7
and 8.
Case No. 9
Gases Nos. 10
11.
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and
17th
December
1896.
18th
December
1896.
23rd
January
1897.
21st
January
1897.
24th January 1897
to 1st February
1897.
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Do.
A female passenger from Bombay was found on
arrival of the train at Sholápur to be suffering from
plague. She died on the way to the Segregation
Hospital.
A fatal case imported from Bombay was not reported
bill after death had occurred. (Pancharpur.)
A man with a ticket from Bombay to Sholápur was
found in a semi-conscious state in the lavatory of a car-
riage at Hotgi Railway Station. He was brought to
the Plague Hospital at Sholápur and died on the 25th
idem.
A Máng woman who had been to Bombay to attend
her son who died of plague returned to Hotgi village,
She was taken ill of plague on the 21st and died the
same day.
Between these dates three inmates of the hut i:
which case No. 4 had died and another woman of th
same caste living in an adjoining hut were taken ill
of plague and all died, the last death occurring on Feb-
ruary 1st. These four were not exposed to any source
of infection except from case No. 4. The cases were
not reported until February 1st. The remaining mem-
bers of the families were segregated in their fields and
their huts, and the sweepings round about were burned.
No other case occurred in the village.
A labourer died of plague at his native village of
Ozare in Karmála Táluka shortly after his return from
Bombay.
Two labourers died of plague at their native village
Kumbhej in Karmála Táluka shortly after their return
from Bombay.