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not been successful in so doing. He brought to notice the undoubted value of inoculation, saying that if all people
would now be inoculated, there was a fair hope that the disease might be finally stamped out, and that if they
refüsed, their blood must be upon their heads. He explained the wishes of the Government, pointing out that
although inoculation was perfectly voluntary, yet it was the desire of the Government that everybody should be
inoculated. He exhorted his hearers to use every effort to induce the people to accept inoculation freely, saying
that the leading men could show their wo th by the help they rendered to the cause of inoculation. Those attend-
ing the meeting expressed their willingness to help, saying they would do all in their powers to get the people to
be inoculated.
Effect of the Commissioner's visit.
" The effect of the Commissioner's visit was imtiediate Within a week over 60000 persons had been inocu-
lated, and the Deputy Commissioner noted in a diary of
June that Captain More had 20,000 persons waiting for
inoculation, having inoculated between seven and eight thousand, and that over 10,000 persons in another part
of the tahsíl were also waiting for the operation.
"Zaildárs, Lambardárs and others besought Medical Officers to come to their villages and inoculate their
people, all of whom, they said, were willing to be inoculated. Zaildárs vied with each other in the numbers they
could produce, and the people themselves eagerly responded to the offer of inoculation. To quote the words of
the Commissioner of Jullundur, " the people saw that one more attempt was to be made to eradicate the disease,
and they arose to the occasion."
"It was felt that no effort should be spared to take advantage of this attitude of the people, and that inocula-
tion should be carried far and wide before their enthusiasm had time to cool.
" Moreover, the enthusiasm affected officials as well as the people, and all officers and subordinates, civil
and medical, exerted themselves to their utmost.
"The actual operation of inoculation was, of course, always performed by Medical Officers, but short of
this the Civil Officers of all classes did everything in their power to further the cause of inoculation, and con-
tributed as much as anybody to the successful completion of the undertaking.
Spread of inoculation.
" The number of persons inoculated began to increase
by leaps and bounds.
" Up to the time of the Commissioner's visit about 31000 inoculations had been performed. During the
following week over 6,000 persons were inoculated, while only about twice that number had been inoculated in any
previous month.
Weekly totals of inoculation.
"The weekly totals steadily increased—11,000, 13000, 19,000, 29,000—until during the week ending July
14th no less than 34 546 persons were inoculated.
Monthly totals.
" During June over 73,000 inoculations were performed, bringing total number of inoculated persons to over
100,000, and during July 127,671 persons were inoculated
bringing the total number up to over 235.000, and leaving
only about a third of the work to be completed. The proportion of the work left undone was really much lees than
this, for there were, of course, large numbers of persons who were unfit for inoculation,
"During August nearly 47,000 persons were inoculated. By this time comparatively few were left uninoculat-
ed who were fit to undergo the operation Lists of such persons were prepared, and the three Medical Officers who
then remained were occupied in inoculating "remnants" and between them performed nearly 11,000 inoculations,
Completion of the undertaking.
"It has been seen that the total population of the infected area amounted to 345,220. Of these 293,628 per-
sons were inoculated during the year from October 1899
to September 1900, and of these inoculations nearly
265,000 had been performed since the Commissioner's visit at the end of May, and for the most part after the
epidemic of plague had come to an end.
Number left uninoculated.
"Towards the conclusion of the work forms were issued to the Lambardárs of the villages, which they were
asked to fill up, showing the population of the village, the
number of inoculated persons, and the numbers remaining
uninoculated, whether on account of unfitness from any cause, such as sickness or unsuitable age, or whether for
any other reason.
Statement showing distribution of inoculated and uninoculat-
ed persons.
• Statement No. 10,—Appendix B., not reproduced here.
" These returns have been compared with the inoculation registers, and from these sources a statement has
been compiled showing the details above mentioned, as
well as the caste of the inoculated persons
The state-
ment* will be found in an Appendix, an abstract of it
(Statement No. 5) is, however, given on the following
page. From it it will be seen that of the population of 345,220, all but 54 106 were inoculated ; of those remaining
uninoculated, 15,305 were unfit for the operation, 5,630 being considered too young, 5,903 too old, while 3,772 were
sick, siskness being held to include pregnancy."