“ The recent history of Poona has been painfully associated with the plague. During 1897, when the city was first attacked, the death-rate rose to 93 per 1000 in Poona city, 71 per 1000 in the cantonment, and Q3 per 1000 in Kirkee.
The District of Poona has an area of 5349 sq. m. Population (1901) , 995,330, showing an increase of 18% after the disastrous famine of 1876-1877, but a decrease of 7% in the last decade. Towards the west the country is undulating, and numerous spurs from the Western Ghats enter the district; to the east it opens out into plains. ”

“ They, include the government Deccan College, with a law class; the aided Fergusson college; the government colleges of science and agriculture; high schools; training schoolsvfor masters and mistresses ”