PLAGUE AND DISPENSARIES IN RAJPUTANA.
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Native States.
73. There were 21,803 cases of plague and 18,294 deaths reported from
Native States of Rajputana during 1909-
10 against 5,448 cases and 4,835 deaths
in 1908-09. Of these 167 cases with 131 deaths were imported and 21,636
cases and 18,163 deaths were indigenous.
74. The epidemic affected 10 States and 430 towns and villages, including
Deoli Cantonment, against 9 States and 191 towns and villages in the previous
year.
75. Jaipur State.—Plague was in epidemic form in the State during the
year under report; 7,552 cases and 6,898 deaths were reported in 144 towns
and villages, of which 1,643 attacks and 1,643 deaths occurred in the City of
Jaipur.
76. In Bharatpur 5,235 cases and 4,311 deaths were reported in 109 towns
and villages.
77. In Marwar, 4,628 seizures and 3,911 deaths in 95 towns and villages.
78. In Mewar, 2,208 cases and 1,566 deaths in 32 towns and villages.
79. In Alwar, 1,362 cases, of which 991 proved fatal, in 33 towns and
villages.
80. In infected villages of the Native States, evacuation, disinfection and
segregation were carried out, largely by the people themselves, the poorer being
State aided. The villagers are gradually appreciating the advantage of early
evacuation on finding dead rats or on plague making its appearance.
81. In a few of the States a certain number of persons came forward for
inoculation and doubtless more will do so later on, when they have greater
experience of its advantage.
82. Measures for rat destruction can seldom be adopted in most of the
Native States as the people are prejudiced against the practice.
83. A plague map showing the districts where outbreaks occurred, the date
of first and last cases, and the death rate per 10,000 of population is attached.
STATEMENT F.
84. Shows the classes and sexes of both in and out-door patients treated in
the hospitals and dispensaries of Ajmer-Merwara and of Native States in
Raiputana as follows: —
Europeans and Eurasians
.
.
.
.
Hindus . . . . . . .
Musalmans
.
.
.
.
.
.
Other classess . . . . .
1908.
2,685
1,062,939
396,189
100,556
1909.
2,194
1,040,027
400,935
102,048
STATEMENT G.
85. The number of surgical operations performed in Ajmer-Merwara and
in Native States during the year under report was 67,178 against 65,204 opera-
tions in 1908 and 66,551 in 1907. The number of patients operated on was
66,969 as compared with 64,815 in the previous year. The cures amounted to
66,180 against 64,317 in 1908 and the numbers relieved, discharged otherwise
and died were 286,182 and 81 respectively against 292,151 and 79 in the pre-
vious year, while 240 remained under treatment on 31st December 1909, as
compared with 195 in 1908.
86. Of the operations performed 1,587 were extraction of the lens for
cataract of which 1,487 or 93.81 per cent. proved successful, 48 lithotomies,
149 litholapaxies, and 158 amputations against 1,277 extractions of the lens
for cataract, 55 lithotomies, 143 litholapaxies and 161 amputations in 1908.
87. It may be noted that in spite of plague being epidemic for a consider-
able portion of the year with its consequent effect on hospital practice the
operative work during 1909 shows a satisfactory increase.
88. In Ajmer-Merwara however the panic from plague very detrimentally
affected operative work, especially in Ajmer City, where during one time of the
epidemic at least two-thirds of the population had left.