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returned to Bombay where he arrived on January 17th. He left Bombay on
February 10th on a visit to the Viceroy at Calcutta and returned to Bombay on
March 2nd, immediately leaving however on a visit to Kathiawar, the tour
including visits to Wadhwan (March 3rd), Bajkot (March 3rd—8th), the Gir
Borest (March 8th—10th), and Veraval. He left Veraval on March 10th by
the British India Steam Navigation Company’s steamer S. S. Lhasa and arrived
at Bombay on the 11th March 1905.
4. Plague was prevalent during the year ending the 31st May 1905, but Plague,
the cases and deaths were much fewer than in the preceding year, the figures
being—
Case?. Deaths.
1904-1905 ... ... 285,897 212,948
1903-1904 ... ... 426,387 316,523
The month of June was as usual the month of lowest mortality, the number
of cases and deaths reported being 3,532 and 2,593 respectively. The figures
rose during July (8,503 cases, 5,909 deaths), August (26,351 cases, 18,379
deaths), September (43,300 cases, 30,868 deaths) and October (56,891 cases,
42,372 deaths). A slight improvement was noticeable during November
(42,796 cases, 32,058 deaths), which continued during December (28,237 cases,
21,667 deaths), January 1905, (19,628 cases, 14,816 deaths) and Pebruary
(16,948 cases, 13,080 deaths). The figures again rose in March (19,051 cases,
14,602 deaths). In the hot weather the number of cases very largely diminished,
13,932 cases, 11,027 deaths being reported in April and 6,728 cases, 5,577
deaths in May.
In Bombay City the disease w r as at its worst during Pebruary (2,787 cases,
2,383 deaths), March (3,545 cases, 3,085 deaths) and April (4,272 cases, 3,747
deaths).'
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In Karachi plague was present throughout the year, becoming epidemic
from January to May. There were 2,913 cases and 2,640 deaths in all as
against 3,385 cases and 2,860 deaths in the preceding year.
At Aden plague broke out in the month):of October 1904 and soon assumed
an epidemic form. The highest figures were reached in Pebruary 1905, 1,151
eases and 1,057 deaths being recorded during the month. There were in all
2,308 cases, 1,985 deaths during the epidemic which lasted till the end of May
1905. The Settlement was declared free from plague in June 1905.
The Districts and Agencies most seriously affected were Khandesh, Ndsik,
Satara, Belgaum, Dhdrwar, Bijapur and Kolhapur and Southern Marltha
Country; hut in the Southern Districts the plague was much less severe than
in the previous year. Surat suffered from a serious epidemic. . Plague occurred
to a milder extent in every other District and Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , except Thar
and Parkar, Khairpur, Savantvadi and Bhor.
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There was no railway medical inspection in the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. proper during
the year. Sea inspection under the Venice Sanitary Convention Regulations
continued on the same lines as in the previous years.
The incidence of the disease among Europeans was as follows:—Bombay
City 17 eases, 9 deaths during the year under report as against 23 cases, 7 deaths
in the previous year; in the Mofussil 2 cases, 1 death as against the same
number last year. At Aden there were 7 cases, 2 deaths among Europeans
during the year.