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PLAGUE IN RAJPUTANA.
91. The Residency Surgeon, Mewar, reports that all the prisoners in the
Central-Jail at Udaipur were inoculated. One woman, a relative of a "Warder
who escaped being inoculated, caught plague and died on the 10th March, 1918.
One prisoner who was inoculated also contracted the disease on 11th March,
but recovered.
92. As far as could be ascertained only 28 inoculated persons contracted
the disease, of whom 11 died and 17 recovered.
93. Alwar.—Early in March, 1917, Harsana village in the Luchmangarh
Tehsil was infected with plague by two plague cases from Jubbulpore. The
outbreak lasted till May, 1917. In August it re-appeared in Luchm angarh
Tehsil. 9,565 seizures and 7,723 deaths were reported in 183 towns and villages
including Alwar City in which 1,767 cases and 1,428 deaths occurred from
January, 1918.
94. Bharatpur.—Plague existed in Bharatpur State throughout the year.
8,256 attacks with 6,495 deaths were reported in 245 towns and villages,
against 57 cases and 35 deaths in 4 towns and villages in 1916. Of these,
403 seizures with 333 deaths occurred in Bharatpur City from
14th
December, 1917, including one imported case which occurred in the Imperial
Service Infantry there on 16th October, and died on 25th idem.
95. Kotah.—Plague was first brought into Mundia village in the Chechat
Nizamat by a case from an infected place in the Indore State; and thence it
spread to other Nizamats. The first case reported was on 23rd October, 1917.
6,456 seizures and 4,856 deaths were reported in 59 infected towns and villages
including 2,773 cases in Kotah City of which 1,880 proved fatal, from 9th
January, 1918.
96. The Agency Surgeon, Kotah and Jhalawar reports that the greatest
difficulty experienced was the disposal of dead bodies. It was to some extent
overcome as volunteers came forward to do this.
97. Tonk.—Plague was in existence till the end of April, 1917. It re-
appeared in August, 1917 : 4,485 seizures and 3,496 deaths were reported in 56
infected towns and villages, including Tonk City in which 2,100 cases and
1,887 deaths occurred from 26th December, 1917 to 21st March, 1918.
98. Sirohi.—Plague visited Sirohi State from 3rd November, 1917 to the
24th March, 1918. 1,751 cases and 1,463 deaths were reported in 41 towns and
villages: of these 760 cases and 555 deaths occurred in Sirohi Town. The
information as to the number of cases and deaths was not received until April,
1918.
99. 10 imported cases and 7 deaths were detected, and 183 indigenous
cases with 179 deaths took place at Abu Road from 18th November, 1917 to
the end of the year.
100. Banswara.—Plague broke out in Partabpura, a village about 5 miles
from Garhi, on the 1st December, 1917 and spread to Garhi and several other
villages.
101. The total number of cases reported up to 31st March, 1918 was 1,439
with 1,013 deaths. The State is still plague infected. The total number of
villages infected was 31. There was no plague in Banswara Town. Out of
1,684 inoculations done at Garhi 6 were reported to have contracted the disease,
of whom two died.
102. Jhalawar.—The outbreak of plague was first reported in Bhawaniganj
on the 15th May, and continued till the end of the year. In 87 infected
towns and villages, 871 seizures and 704 deaths were reported.
103. Bundi.—Plague appeared in Bundi State on 22nd November, 1917
and continued till the end of the year. 1,905 seizures and 1,593 deaths were
reported in 11 infected towns and villages including Bundi City in which 619
cases and 472 deaths occurred from 1st March, 1918.
104. In Karauli 695 indigenous cases and 554 deaths were reported in 20
towns and villages including Karauli Town in which 95 attacks and 64 deaths
occurred.