Walter Charles Rand Was British Officer, Plague Commissioner of Poona was Civil officer played important role in East India Company. Plague became an epidemic in Bombay presidency and it affected the people of Bombay and near by Pune cities.

Since the Plague endemic became a menace and began to spread like the summer bush-fire, the then British Raj took serious efforts on a war footing to check the spread of this dreaded disease. Within a month 0.6% of the Pune's population had died from plague and nearly half of the population left the city to avoid pain and death. The Governor of Bombay instituted "The Plague Committee" under the chairmanship of W.C. Rand an ICS officer.

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