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The following account of the epidemic in the Karnál District is extracted from the report •
of Lieutenant Cprry, I. M. S., the Civil Surgeon :—
" The first case of plague in the District appeared in Karnál City on the 14th Feb-
ruary 1902. Between this date and the 2nd April 1902 seven cases altogether were re-
ported in the city, all of which ended fatally.
" These cases were proved to have been imported from the Ambala District. No
other cases occurred, in the Karnál Tahsíl during the time this report covers.
"In the Thánesar Tahsíl plague was first reported on the 15th February in the
town of Thánesar. Two cases occurred, both of which were imported from the Ambala
District, and ended fatally. In the town of Ládwa, in this tahsil, three cases were reported
on the 7th March.
" These were also imported from the Ambala District, and two of them ended
fatally.
"In the Kaithal Tahsíl one ease occurred at Pehowa on the 12th March and one on
the 23rd April.
" Both these cases were imported from Patiála State and ended fatally.
" So far the cases were all imported, and the disease did not spread any further.
Thánesar Tahsfl.
(a) " From the nth April to 15th May six cases of plague with three 'deaths occurr-
ed in the village of Mohri in the Thánesar
Tahsíl.
" These cases were not imported ones, but the disease was contracted in the villages
of Mohra and Shahpur in the Ambala District, the former village being only one mile dis-
tant from Mohri. Some days before the actual outbreak of the disease rats were observed
to die in the village. It is hard to say whether the disease was actually first contracted in
Mohra, or the village infected from Mohra as there is a great deal of inter-communication
between the inhabitants of the two villages, and they lie so close together.
" The outbreak ceased on May 18th, by which time 48 cases with 36 deaths had been
reported.
" Seven other villages were infected in this tahsíl, the total number of plague cases
and deaths in the tahsíl during the year being respectively 228 and 132.
"No disinfection of houses was carried out.
Kaithal Tahsfl.
(b) " The first villages infected here were Mayán and Baran, the former from 3rd
April to 7th May, during which time 61 cases
with 28 deaths occurred, and the latter from
4th April to 12th May, 43 cases with 28 deaths occurring. These villages were infected from
Patiála State.
" On the 12th April the disease broke out in the town of Kaithal ; between this date
and the 26th May 90 cases with 59 deaths occurred
"There were outbreaks of plague in-five other villages, all of which received their
infection from the Patiála State. 331 plague cases with 194 deaths occurred in the Kaithal
Tahsíl during the year under report.
Attitude of the people.
(c) " Generally speaking, the epidemic caused very little alarm amongst the people,
and all plague measures were resisted by
them to a very considerable extent.
preventive pleasures.
(d) " No measures at any time were taken to prevent the outbreak of plague in unin-
fected places, nor was any surveillance over
arrivals from infected places resorted to ex-
cept as noted below.
" Only in the case of the village of Mohri did the inhabitants try to prevent persons
from infected places from entering their village, and in this case they were not successful, as
people were reported to have entered by night.
Measures for obtaining information.
(5) " The arrangements for obtaining information regarding plague cases were very
imperiect. Cards in the vernacular containing
instructions for the reporting of cases of plague
were circulated to the Tahsildárs and to the Lambardárs and Patwárís of villages. These
latter sent in daily reports to the Civil Surgeon, whilst the former sent in consolidated daily
reports. In the case of Kaithal and Arnauli, where there were Hospital Assistants, reports