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PLAGUE IN RAJPUTANA.
Plague.
71. During the year from 1st April 1915 to 31st March 1916, 135
plague seizures and 109 deaths were reported in 17 towns and villages infected in
the Native States in Rajputana, against 570 cases and 458 deaths in 44 towns
and villages in 1914-15. The district of Ajmer-Merwara remained free from
plague throughout the year.
72. The disease lingered from the preceding year until May 1915 in
Marwar, and up to June in Bharatpur State. Afterwards only imported cases
were reported in Marwar, Sirohi, and Mewar in which 8 imported cases with 3
deaths occurred up to the end of the year under report.
73. In Bharatpur 69 cases and 55 deaths were reported in 7 towns and
villages, as compared with 198 cases and 122 deaths in 16 towns and villages in
1914-15. The Bharatpur City remained free from plague.
74. No indigenous plague existed in Jaipur and Alwar States during the
year under report. Only 2 imported cases and 1 death were reported in the
former and 1 fatal case in the latter in April 1915. Jaipur and Alwar City
were free from the disease throughout the year.
75. The guard room, dispensary and kitchen at the Jaipur plague camp
which consisted of mud huts with thatched or iron roofing, have been
replaced by new buildings with "pise" walls on stone in mud foundations.
The new huts have been roofed with corrugated iron sheets on iron trusses
erected on pipe pillars.
76. No inoculations were performed during the year.
77. The value of evacuation is now generally recognised and directly some
deaths take place in a Muhalla of a town or in a village the people voluntarily
leave their homes.
78. As the plague outbreak in Rajputana was slight no map has been
attached with this report.
Snake poisoning.
79. Calmette's Anti-venine is kept in stock in most of the main
dispensaries and used for the treatment of snake-poisoning when opportunity
offers. A case of recovery under Antivenene injection is reported from
Victoria Hospital, Bharatpur; but the species of snake is not mentioned, nor
are any particulars furnished regarding the case.
STATEMENT F.
80. Shows the classes and sexes of both in-door and out-door patients treated
in the dispensaries of Ajmer-Merwara and of Native States. This calls for no
comment as it is merely introduced for statistical purposes.
STATEMENT G.
81. The number of surgical operations performed during the year in Ajmer-
Merwara and in Native States was 81,023 against 75,416 : an increase of
5,607. The number of patients operated on was 80,524, as compared with
75,181 in 1914. The numbers cured amounted to 79,218; relieved 642;
discharged otherwise 199 ; and died 125 : against 74,047 ; 524; 230 ; and 121 in
the previous year, while 340 remained under treatment at the end of the year.
82. Of the operations performed 2,444 were extractions of the lens for
Cataract; of which 2,170, or 88.79 per cent., proved successful; 68 Lithotomies,
216 Litholapaxies, and 239 Amputations are recorded; against 2,387 lens
extractions, 54 Lithotomies, 193 Litholapaxies and 173 Amputations in 1914.
83. 558 abdominal operations were done; of which 33 proved fatal: as
compared with 445 abdominal operations with 34 deaths in 1914. Of these,
412 were Paracentesis of abdomen with 15 deaths, and 15 Abscess of the liver
with 4 deaths.