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The large majority of these inoculations may really be considered to be the expressed opinion of the
people themselves that inoculation is good. No pressure was exercised, and, once the difficulty of doing
50 or 80 inoculations in a village had been surmounted, the remainder of the inoculations done there was the
result of the establishment of conviction in the minds of the villagers that the measure, in spite of its
drawbacks, temporary indisposition and especially its failure in many instances, is on the whole distinctly
beneficial. It will be seen that the figures are based on 42,380 inoculations, more than two-thirds of the
total performed in the district.
Calculating from the data given and condensing them into popular expression, we may say that in
these 102 villages 1,706 lives were saved by inoculation.
Below are given particulars of some individual villages for convenience :—
Bhure
Popu. 387
Begewál
Popu. 1,235
Mohanpur
Popu. 903
Shámnagar
Popu. 1,339
Makkanwindi
Popu. 1,655
Munda
Popu, 3,129
Phailloke
Popu. 1,050
Kairon
Popu. 2,816
Mucchal
Popu. 1,756
Jethúwál
Popu. 1,658
Villages.
Uninoculated
Inoculated
Uninoculated
Inoculated
Uninoculated
Inoculated
Uninoculated
(. Inoculated
Uninoculated
Inoculated
Uninoculated
Inoculated
Uninoculated
Inoculated
Uninoculated
Inoculated
Uninoculated
Inoculated
Uninoculated
Inoculated
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Average number
exposed to
infection.
187
300
796
439
455
443
422
917
990
665
1,684
1,445
563
487
1,450
1,366
1,180
576
1,064
594
Plague deaths
per 100 of
population.
10.16
Nil.
6.16
.23
16.26
1.34
924
.98
5.25
.15
766
.83
7.46
.41
8.83
.66
780
.69
5.36
0.34
Ratio of deaths in
uninoculated and
inoculated.
...
27 to 1
12 to 1
9 to 1
35 to 1
9 to 1
18 to 1
13 to 1
11 to 1
10 to 1
The above specimens are in no way taken because they are particularly favourable, but because a
large proportion of the inhabitants were inoculated.
The death per 100 of population uninoculated and inoculated is given for comparison, the death-rate
being a more accurate index than the case rate.
Look at Mohanpur, which suffered a very severe outbreak, in which 16.26 per cent. of uninoculated
died, and only 1.34 per cent, of inoculated.
At Sangatpura, where there were 297 uninoculated and ' 344 inoculated, there were 22 cases and 20
deaths in the former, not a single case among the latter. At Kot Mahmed Khán, a small village, out of
263 uninoculated, 2471 per cent. died of plague, a quarter of their number, while 71 inoculated escaped
without an attack.
At Lohar, 13 per cent. of 568 uninoculated died, while there was nota single case among 254
inoculated.
Before leaving the subject of protective value of inoculation, I must mention the case of Wirána, a
village in the Tarn Táran Tahsíl, the only village in the district which is supposed to have been totally
inoculated ; this village although in the centre of a cluster of villages that were badly attacked, has completely
escaped infection.
Infection in separate families.
15. In the statement below a number of instances are given showing the protective value of inoculation,
both in bubonic and pneumonic plague.
The Murádpore case was a very important one. It occurred at the beginning of the operations ; the
Lambardár of the village was inoculated at the first assemblage at Tarn Táran because he thought as an