66 [CHAP. I., PT. VII.
Circular.
"When plague ceases for several months in a town, or village, or house, is the germ dead
or is it merely dormant ? This is a point on which it is important to collect evidence. And
the Plague Commissioner will be glad to have any that there may be already, or that may in
future come to notice. And he requests that a look-out may be kept for facts bearing on the
point. To what extent is it found that in the present, or past, spreads of plague the disease
keeps re-appearing in the same villages and in the same houses, as though the result not of
new imported infection, but of the re-awakening of a germ that has never quitted the room.
(Sd.) A. CUMINE,
Acting Plague Commissioner."
Replies to this Circular were received from Ahmednagar, Kathiawar, Khandesh, Satara,
Sholapur and other places; but they were all inconclusive.