23
" the day of the outbreak up to the date of this memorandum [24th October
" 1899] the writer does not admit there is any appreciable error in these statistics.
" In some of the villages the number of the residual population at the end of
" the outbreak has been further tested and tallied and found not to throw the
" least suspicion on the records."
The method of calculation adopted by Mr. Anderson is as follows :-" A
" number of protected and a number of unprotected persons live for a day in
" the infected area, and the question is, which class shows the higher rate of
"attack and death from plague. If the number is not the same, as will
" usually be the case, then we must multiply the number of protected by the
" number of days they have lived in the village, and similarly with the unpro-
" tected : thus the product will give the number of daily units of each class :
" these units divided by the number of attacks and deaths from plague among
" that class give the daily rate of attack and death as 1, in so many units."
The unit in fact is 1 (person) 1 (day).
As the result of the labour of the census parties Mr. Anderson was able to
compile tables showing day by day the progress of plague in each village, and the
events happening in the groups of inoculated and uninoculated respectively.
From these he compiled the following summary :-

"Village.
Period and its characteristics.
INOCULATED
UNINOCULATED
Units.
Attack.
Death.
Death-rate 1 in-
Units.
Attack.
Death.
Death-rate 1 in-
Arangaon
9th May to 14th June disease slowly
spreads till it gets epidemic and
inoculation begins ; 37 days
24
...
...
...
37,945
11
8
4,743
15th June to 31st August plague
gets worse till at last inoculation is
resorted to freely ; 78 days
18,940
4
2
9,470
59,937
40
28
2,140
1st to 30th September inoculation
general and plague disappears;
30 days ... ... ... ...
22,119
7
4
5,530
7,364
23
12
613
Total, 145 days ...
41,083
11
6
6,847
105,246
74
48
2,192
Vakodi
3rd July to 15th August outbreak
controlled by evacuation till it gets
severe ; 44 days ... ... ...
...
38,663
14
10
3,865
After 15 cases in 2 days the people
take to inoculation, 16th August to
5th September ; 21 days ... ...
2,218
...
...
...
15,860
36
28
566
6th September to 12th October in-
oculation stamps out plague which
becomes sporadic ; 38 days ...
26,116
8
2
13,090
5,992
4
1
5,968
Total, 102 days ...
28,334
8
2
14,162
60,515
54
39
1,551
Nepti
6th July to 13th August inoculation
declined ; 39 days ... ... ...
66
...
...
...
43,848
50
38
1,154
14th August to 13th Soptember epi-
demic dies out through evacuation ;
31 days ... ... ... ...
7,377
6
2
3,687
26,500
19
16
1,656
Total, 70 days ...
7,443
6
2
3,721
70,348
69
54
1,302
Valunj
Little inoculation, disease very viru-
lent 1st to 28th August ; 28 days.
497
3
2
249
17,923
53
40
365
9th August to end of epidemic 14th
October inoculation stamps it out ;
47 days ... ... ... ...
20,920
5
5
4,184
7,362
24
24
306
Total, 85 days ...
21,417
8
7
3,060
25,295
77
73
345
Nimblak
From 25th August to 13th October
the disease still rages and people
take very little to inoculation ; no
fair trial , 50 days ... ... ...
2,269
9
2
1,135
37,329
56
34
1,098
Bhirgr
From the time when plague began
to be epidemic (7th September) to
19th October period of 43 days ...
31,338
7
5
6,267
148,300
59
47
3,155