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SOME FIGURES. 



I do not intend to be statistical, hut a few round figures may be 

 given to bear out this coloring of certain regions on the map. First, 

 as to the dark area in the south of the Bombay Presidency. The three 

 districts of Satara, Belgaum, and Dharwar, and the native State of 

 Kolhapur have each returned an almost equal total of plague deaths 

 during the last four years, viz, 120,000, being an average of 30.000 a 



Shaded portion shows Plague areas. 



E N G A L 



Madras 



Pondicherry 



Fk;. 1. — Map of India showing plague arras. 



year for each in a population of about a million. The adjoining dis- 

 trict of Bijapur had over 20,000 in each of the two last seasons, while 

 Sholapur and Khandesh have each had one season of 25,000 in the 

 more recent period. But in the Punjab those large annual totals have 

 been exceeded in several districts. Sialkote had 50,000 deaths the sea- 

 son before last, Ludhiana almost the same number three years ago, 



