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VACCINATION AND DISPENSARIES IN RAJPUTANA.
LEPROSY.
50. There were 436 patients treated for Leprosy as compared with 426
in 1910 and 500 in 1909. No special reports on the use of Nastin have been
received.
PLAGUE.
51. During the year from 1st April, 1911, to 31st March, 1912, 9,883
cases of plague and 8,353 deaths were reported and 384 towns and villages
were infected in Rajputana including Ajmer-Merwara District as compared
with 38,809 seizures and 32,523 deaths and 871 towns and villages in 1910-1911.
The percentage of total plague deaths to population was 1.31, vide table
attached, against 1.32 in the previous year. The disease was in mild type.
52. The number of inoculations performed in 1911-1912 was 2,738 against
12,132 in 1910-1911 and 21,927 in 1909-1910 at the following places :—
Bharatpur City
.
.
.
.
Udaipur City
.
.
.
.
TOTAL .
514
2,224
2,738
53. Plague existed in Rajputana throughout the year and is still going on.
Ajmer-Merwara.
54. There were 192 seizures and 177 deaths reported in the Ajmer District
of which 19 cases and 10 deaths occurred
in Ajmer City. In Merwara, only one
imported case occurred at Beawar as compared with 989 cases and 918
deaths in the previous year. The disease was prevalent in April and May only
after which no cases were reported till November when one case was imported
into Ajmer from Mhow.
55. The plague segregation camp in Ajmer is still in existence and a Sub-
Assistant Surgeon is in charge of it.
Native States.
56. There were 9,691 cases of plague and 8,176 deaths reported from
Native States against 37,820 cases and
31,605 deaths in 1910-1911.
57. The epidemic affected 12 States and 365 towns and villages as com-
pared with 14 States and 776 towns and villages in the previous year.
58. Jaipur.—Plague prevailed in epidemic form from 1st April to 30th
June 1911, and again broke out from 2nd October to 23rd November, and then
from 1st to 31st March, 1912. 2,224 attacks with 1,996 deaths were reported
in 105 towns and villages during the year under report, the mortality was
highest in April 1911, viz., 879 deaths. 54 seizures and 31 deaths were reported
in the city of Jaipur.
59. Alwar.—Plague was prevalent both in the Capital and in District at
the commencement of the year and April was the worst month with 1,959 cases
and 1,659 deaths.
60. There were 2,598 cases and 2,175 deaths reported in 94 towns and
villages against 9,040 cases and 7,249 deaths in 161 towns and villages in
1910-1911.
61. The City of Alwar remained free from infection from May 1911.
62. In Bharatpur 2,469 cases and 2,135 deaths were reported in 74 infected
towns and villages as compared with 6,751 cases and 5,821 deaths in 174 towns
and villages in 1910-1911, of these 129 cases and 97 deaths occurred in the
city of Bharatpur.
63. The destruction of rats was continued in several towns of the Bharat-
pur State.
64. Mewar.—There were 1,102 cases and 935 deaths reported in 29 in-
fected towns and villages in Mewar against 3,605 seizures and 2,314 deaths
in the previous year.
65. Plague continued to linger in Udaipur City from the previous year,
470 cases and 458 deaths were reported daring the year. The Residency Sur-
geon, Mewar, reports that the work done by the Police Superintendent Lala