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PLAGUE IN RAJPUTANA.
Plague.
55. During the year from 1st April 1912 to 31st March 1913, 6,037 cases of
plague and 5,672 deaths were reported and 83 towns and villages were
infected in Rajputana including Ajmer-Merwara District as compared with
9,883 seizures and 8,353 deaths and 384 towns and villages in 1911-12. The per-
centage of total plague deaths to population according to the census of 1911
was 1.36 vide table attached against 1.21 in the previous year.
56. Plague existed in Rajputana throughout the year and is still
prevalent.
Ajmer-Merwara.
57. Only 19 cases of plague and 13 deaths were reported in the Ajmer
District against 192 attacks and 177
deaths in 1911-12. It continued till June
1912. Only two cases with one death were reported in the Ajmer town and
17 cases and 12 deaths in the Deolia village of the Sawar Circle.
Native States.
58. During the year 6,018 cases and 5,659 deaths were reported from Native
States, against 9,691 cases and 8,176
deaths in 1911-12.
59. The epidemic affected 8 Native States and 81 towns and villages as
compared with 12 States and 365 towns and villages in the previous year.
60. Jaipur.—Plague continued till the end of June 1912 in a fairly mild
form. On 31st August a recrudescence occurred and the epidemic became very
severe.
61. 4,326 seizures with 4,262 deaths occurred in Jaipur City including
plague Camp Hospital near Rawalji's Bund and suburbs and 554 attacks with
510 deaths in 27 infected towns and villages in the District: there were in all
4,880 cases with 4,772 deaths during the year under report.
62. 1,282 inoculations were performed in Jaipur City. It seemed to have
found more favour than during any previous year among the poor and middle
class people who submitted themselves voluntarily for inoculation.
63. Prophylactic measures to check the epidemic were taken as far as
possible by improvement of the sanitation of the city and disinfection of the
infected houses. Those of the plague stricken population who could afford to
do so and who had no prejudices, evacuated the infected city of their own
accord.
64. On 20th November 1912 His Excellency Lord Hardinge visited the
Plague Camp Hospital during his stay at Jaipur.
65. In Bharatpur 971 cases and 774 deaths were reported in 40 towns and
villages as compared with 2,469 cases and 2,135 deaths in 74 towns and
villages in 1911-12. Only one fatal case occurred in the city of Bharatpur.
66. Karauli.—Only one case of plague imported from Jaipur was reported
in Karauli city in October 1912.
67. Alwar.—Plague continued in the State of Alwar from 1st April to
June and again broke out in October 1912 and then from 1st to 31st March
1913. 135 attacks with 84 deaths were reported in seven infected towns
and villlages against 2,598 cases and 2,175 deaths in 94 towns and villages in
1911-12. The Alwar City remained free from plague.
68. Bikaner.—Plague was brought into Rajgarh which is about 160 miles
east of Bikaner on the line of the Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway by a case from
Sirsa in British territory.
69. The first case reported was on 9th April and the last on the 20th of
the same month: during that period 18 cases and 18 deaths were reported in
all.
70. Mewar.—Plague continued to occur in Mewar up to the 12th April
1912. Only six cases and six deaths were reported.
71. Since the 13th April 1912 Mewar has been free from the disease.
72. Kotah.—During April 1912 only three cases and three deaths were
reported at Dharnawad village.
No other villages were infected.
73. Kotah has been free from plague since May 1912.