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provision of free camps and food in times of evacuation and the many other mattere in which
the people's welfare and comfort have been considered, are the seeds of which the harvest
is not yet.
In conclusion, a general review of the Plague History of this Presidency during the last
three years tends to show that although the Presidency has suffered heavily, and that, although
the pestilence has spread, neither the general incidence of the disease, nor the actual plague
mortality-except in certain very small places in the rains, when no measures could be effec-
tually enforced - will bear comparison with the terrible results-the appalling mortality-
accredited to the pestilence in the past. And it may fairly be urged that to the various mea-
sures so promptly and thoroughly enforced, and to the loyal efforts made in their introduction,
and the careful watch kept over their strict observance, by a large and devoted body of plague
workers scattered over the entire Presidency-men and women-European and Native-
Official and Non-Official-this moderated virulence-this lessened mortality-in other words,
this success in the fight with plague is due.