Distribution of & Mortality from Cholera during 1897—Bombay Presidency 1898 map

'Sketch Map to Illustrate the Distribution of and Comparative Mortality from Cholera in the Different Collectorates of the Presidency of Bombay during the Year 1897' A scarce official epidemiological map of the Bombay Presidency, prepared for the Sanitary Commissioner’s report for 1897 and printed at the Government Photozinco Office, Poona, in 1898. Using graduated colour, it maps cholera deaths per 10,000 inhabitants across the presidency’s collectorates, with a detailed inset table giving monthly mortality statistics. The map shows the heaviest mortality concentrated in the southern Deccan and Karnatak districts, especially the Southern Mahratta country around Belgaum, Bijapur and Dharwar, with further high incidence toward the Madras frontier, while Sind, Kutch and much of northern Gujarat are comparatively lightly shaded. A striking example of late-Victorian colonial medical cartography, combining administrative geography, epidemic surveillance and public-health statistics in the plague-era Bombay Presidency, and the official statistical priorities of imperial administration.