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The Members were:-
Sirdar Umar Jamal.
Mr. Vasantji Khimji.
Mr. Narayan Trimbak Vaidya.
The Hon'ble Dr. Bhalchandra.
Rao Saheb Ellapa Balaram.
Mr. P. B. Joshi.
ROUGH ESTIMATE.
G. I. P.

B.B. & C. I.
Kalyan
100
Bandora
1,000
Diva
100

Santa Cruz
1,000
Dimauli
50
Malad
500
Mumbra
100
Borivli
400
Thana (including
Navpada)
560
Andheri
1,500
Bhandup.
500
Goregaon
1,000
Kurla ,
1,500
Chimbur
1,000
Ghatkuper
2,000
5,900
5,400

Total 11,300
formed to make the wish of Government generally known and to explain
the need for leaving infected localities,
and the help which the Plague Committee
was ready to give to all settlers. A large
number of upper-class Hindus had already
settled in bungalows and sheds in the parts of Salsette near the railway
and were coming daily to
Bombay by train. The total
number of settlers was probably
about 11,000. The scheme
for forming camps in Salsette
was not successful. The ar-
rangement of clustering in
sheds round bungalows, in
settlements of forty to fifty families, suited the better class of settlers
better than the publicity of a camp. No measure of success attended the
efforts to induce any class of working people to settle outside of the
Island of Bombay. They could face neither the going so far from their
houses nor the time required for the daily journey.
The attention of the Committee was therefore turned to the opening
of large Health Camps on all convenient sites in the Island of Bombay.
The Dadar flats, within easy reach of both railways and of the Tansa and
Virar mains, were chosen as the chief site. With the approval of Gov-
ernment it was arranged to build a camp or camps able to house 40,000
people. The work of superintending the laying out and the building of
two of the four proposed camps, was entrusted to Captain Swayne, R.E.,
Executive Engineer, Military Works, and the building was entrusted to
two leading contractors who had throughout been of the greatest service
to the Committee, Sirdar Umar Jamal and Rao Saheb Ellapa Ballaram.
In the neighbourhood of the large camps clusters of huts were built to
suit the requirements of well-to-do settlers, and these were occupied at
low rents. At Matunga and along the line of the Vincent Road were
many private settlements, some of them of timber huts, which had been
in use during the former epidemic.
The Committee were anxious that the excellent sites on the north
slopes of Antop Hill should be used as a camp. The Municipal Com-
missioner arranged for a supply of water, and a settlement of about 150
upper-class Hindus was formed. Except that it is nearly a mile from
the railway, Antop Hill is an excellent site. Other places admirably
suited for camps are the west slopes of Worli Hill and the recently
reclaimed shoreland to the south of Sewri.