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Maratha Camp.
The Maratha Camp, in Connaught Road, together with the hospital to which it is attached, was built by subscriptions amongst the Maratha community and the millowners who employ large numbers of Marathas, both Konkanis or Ghatis, that is West Dekhanis. Its use is confined to Marathas. It was opened on January 1st, 1898. There is accommodation in the Health Camp for 800 people, and 921 have been admitted up to April 10th. Since that date the camp has been filled owing to the vacation of a number of houses, and the total number of admissions is now just over 1,200, the camp being almost full.
Thirty-six cases of sickness have been removed from the camp to the hospital, of which 19 were Plague, 14 simple fever, 2 chicken-pox and 1 consumption. No death has occcurred in the camp. There was one birth on February 24th.
The camp is in charge of a Camp Master who, with a clerk and a staff of limewashers and sweepers, keeps it in excellent order, so that it has been in every way a success. In addition to the Health Camp there is accommodation for 200 Contacts within the hospital fence : 639 persons have been admitted as Contacts, amongst whom 12 cases of Plague and 1 death occurred. There were also 3 cases of simple fever, one of which has been discharged, while 2 are still under observation.
Private Camps.
From the middle of December 1897 numbers of Parsis and superior and middle-class Hindus began to leave the infected parts of the city and move to the open country to the north of Bombay or to suburbs in the adjoining Salsette Taluka of the Thana District. As the cold weather began to decrease in intensity, this exodus became more general, and by the end of March 1898 about 45,000 people had left Bombay and were encamped either in the north of the Island or in the suburbs. Restrictions had necessarily to be placed upon going into the districts, but passes were freely granted to respectable and responsible persons.
In the statement below is given the approximate number of people who removed beyond the limits of Bombay Island :-
G I. P RAILWAY.
B. B. C. I. RAILWAY.
Kalyan
about
200
Bassein ...
about
250
Demauli
"
100
Bhaynder
"
50
Diva
"
250
Borivli ...
"
500
Mumbra
"
150
Malad-Goregaon
"
2,000
Thana
"
500
Andheri ...
"
2,000
Nowpada
"
500
Virlapal and Amlauli
"
2,000
Bhandup
"
1,000
Santa Cruz
"
1,000
Ghatkuper
"
3,000
Bandra ...
"
1,000
Kurla
"
2,000
Chimbur and Manigaum
"
1,500
9,200
8,800