VITAL STATISTICS AND SANITATION IN RAJPUTANA.
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10. The above table shows the total number of cholera cases and deaths
reported in Rajputana during the year 1917.
Ajmer-Merwara.
11. According to this, with the exception of 11 cases and 9 deaths reported
in Ajmer City in June, July and August,
Ajmer-Merwara District was free from
the disease.
Native States.
12. 89 cases with 60 deaths were reported from the Native States of
Rajputana against 6,770 cases and 4,177
deaths in 1916.
13. In Jaipur 37 seizures with 36 deaths were reported from 22nd March
to 13th October, 1917. Of these, 36 cases and 35 deaths occurred in Jaipur
City including 1 case in the Central Jail and 1 fatal case in Sambhar town,
as compared with 921 attacks and 847 deaths in the previous year.
14. In Bharatpur 41 seizures with 19 deaths were reported in 3 towns in
September and October, 1917. Bharatpur City was free from the disease.
15. In Karauli 11 cases with 5 deaths were reported in September, 1917 in
1 village.
16. The usual precautionary and preventive measures were adopted.
17. As the Cholera outbreak in Rajputana was slight no map has been
attached to the report.
SANITATION.
Ajmer City Conservancy.
18. The sanitary condition of Ajmer City and suburbs is still far from
perfect. Endeavours are being made by
the Municipality to increase the number
of foul water and rubbish carts which are scarcely sufficient to meet the wants
of an increasing population : and more public latrines and urinals which are
required will be provided when circumstances permit. The difficulty in obtain-
ing iron, the high prices ruling on account of the war, and the financial
state of the Municipality suffice to retard progress in this respect.
19. Galvanised Iron movable receptacles for the collection of solid and
liquid matter have been provided in almost all private latrines.
20. Many old private latrines which were insanitary have been improved
by opening ventilators and carrying out structural alterations.
21. The covered drains in the city and suburbs are insanitary and in
great need of improvement. The matter is under the consideration of the con-
servancy Sub-Committee-
22. The slaughter house, meat and beef markets and the butchers' shops
still leave much to be desired: and required improvements when funds
permit.
23. The nightsoil from private houses is collected by birat sweepers who
carry it in receptacles to the tramway collecting station: their work is un-
satisfactory.
24. The nightsoil and rubbish as also the foul water of Ajmer is conveyed
by steam tramway from the collecting station to the trenching ground, about
3½ miles distant.
25. The Municipality cannot afford to pay a qualified Assistant Health
Officer. The Civil Surgeon of Ajmer, who is much overworked, along with the
conservancy Sub-Committee spends several hours a week in settling questions
of insanitation and visiting sites which are reported as unhygienic: but the
authority of the Sub-Committee would appear to be very limited; and, in many
cases, resolutions passed by them cannot be carried into effect with the
expedition necessary in sanitary matters, on account of want of summary
powers, or by reason of technical or legal difficulties. The result is that there
is undue delay in remedying some of the most flagrant cases of insanitation.
Municipal rules are under revision and it is hoped this defect will soon be
removed.
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