SATARA DISTRICT.] 249
Week ending
Cases.
Deaths.
1st October 1897
35
26
8th " "
27
19
15th " "
35
31
22nd " "
51
48
29th " "
110
83
5th November "
75
71
12th " "
53
50
19th " "
41
27
26th " "
47
30
3rd December "
23
22
10th " "
18
20
17th " "
11
15
24th " "
5
6
31st " "
2
3
7th January 1898
1
1
14th " "
1
1
Total ...
535
453
TASGAON TOWN
Population 11,261.
No case was reported after the 14th January 1898.
Tsgaon Tluka.
From the Town to the Tluka was but a step. There was little restriction on the move-
ments of the townspeople, and their dispersion led to an out-
break all over the Tluka. But unlike most other places in
the District, the people left the village directly cases occurred among them, and, in fact,
in some instances before plague was notified. This action had the very beneficial result of
limiting the number of attacks. Out of the 20 villages attacked in Assistant Surgeon
Merchant's charge, only two had not been so evacuated, viz., Chinchni and Bhose. The
former, with a population of 3,155, had 255 attacks and 204 deaths ; the latter with a smaller
population-2,445-had very nearly the same proportion of cases and deaths, viz., 188 and
144 respectively. In other words, about 8 per cent. of the population were attacked in these
two villages. On the other hand, in the evacuated villages the attacks were in all cases,
except that of Doongersoni, under 4 per cent. of the population, being less than 2 per cent.
in 9 cases. In Doongersoni alone the proportion was over 9 per cent., doubtless due to
tardy evacuation. There was a general subsidence towards the end of the year 1897, but
fresh villages were attacked and the epidemic lingered on in this Tluka after the disease
had subsided everywhere else in the District. This is attributed to the continued outbreak in
the Southern Martha Country whence infection was freely brought into Tsgaon. In any
case plague did not die out in Tsgaon Tluka during the hot weather, and was ultimately
responsible for the third epidemic in the District. Up to the end of May 1898 there
were 1,218 cases and 946 deaths in the Tsgaon Tluka, exclusive of those in Tsgaon Town.
Stra Town.
Population-29,601.
Plague in the Stra District had already reached its zenith in October 1897, and a
marked, though gradual, decline had set in in the month of
November 1897, when the town of Stra was attacked. The
first imported case had come from Bombay, and occurred on the 10th January 1897, but was
not allowed to establish infection; 5 more cases were imported in February, but were
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