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FOR TI1E YEAR I9l8.
r more than two or three who oscaped seizure. For about three
“umbor of deaths ia the town, mostly from septic pneumonia and brooch^
”?8t have been from 100-200 per day and as practically everyone in the town
01 ill at tho same time, all business wus temporarily suspended
The entire Consulate staff with the exception of the
Non-Commissioned Officers and one sowar of the Escort were tak® naotain
mvar died. There were no deaths among the European residents, bu P
N. Carr, South Persia Rifles, died at Saidabad on his way from
fIndia on short leave, and four officers (Major Fowle an(^paP* *
X M.S., Sherwood and Jelly) had to be invalided to India. Of the 19 European
civilians including children, four escaped seizure.
For the Kerman Brigade South Persia Rifles the figures were as
follows:—
Caw Incideroe. Death*. Mortality.
Kerman . • 1,500 (approximate) 91 6 per cent.
Saidabad 9C0 77 8*5
Narmasbir 150 49 82'6 „
Total . 2,550 ^approximate) 217 8’5 per cent.

The total number of deaths in the town reported by the Police was 1,260
but these figures are almost certainly incomplete.
Nusrat-ul-Mamalik, the aged head of the Khnnzada family, who had
acted us Governor-General from 17th February to 19th July (vide above), died
on 15th December.
In the districts, particularly Jirufi, Bam and Narmashir, Rafsinjan
and Khabis, the epidemic was far severer even than in Kerman, and
all reports agreed that throughout the province it was the worst that had
occurred within the memory of man. The country people and tribesmen had
no warning of the danger and were quite unprepared. The influenza was
regarded merely as a severe cold, no precautions were taken and agricultural
and other out-door work was proceeded with. The result was that from *
twenty-five to fifty per cent, or even more of the population of most district*
was wiped out. Fields were left half tilled, transport animals and other
property abandoned ownerless, in fact the life of the province was brought to
a standstill. It will take years for the province to recover from this calamity.
Apart from the cholera and influenza, there was an abnormal prevalence
of enteric and allied fevers throughout the province in the spring and early
summer, amounting to an epidemic at Bagliin and neighbouring villages, and
also in Bam district.
Excepting for the disturbances of January 8*h described above, the town
was quiet throughout the year.

The Districts.
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