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Jullundur Division.
KANGRA DISTRICT.
40. There was no epidemic of plague in the Kngra District during the year under
report. There were, however, 5 imported cases, 4 coming from Gurdspur District and 1
from Ludhina. All these five cases were fatal.
No measures to prevent the importation of plague into the district were taken
except in the Dharmsla Municipality, where a Hospital Assistant was placed on extra duty
to inspect all arrivals from the plains. This inspection was only in force from May 20th to
July 31st, 1902. The five imported cases were all segregated as soon as discovered, and the
houses in which they had lived were well disinfected ; the other inhabitants of the house
were segregated for ten days and then disinfected. No inoculations were performed in
this district.
There were reports from two villages in the Dera Tahsl of slight mortality amongst
rats, but this was not followed by any outbreak of plague.
All five cases of plague were of the bubonic type.
There having been only imported plague cases in the distinct, no special medical staff
was detailed for plague duty, but the Hospital Assistant, Nrpur Dispensary, did plague duty
in addition to his ordinary work.
HOSHIARPUR DISTRICT.
41. There was no complete cessation of plague in the Hoshiarpur District during
the hot weather of 1901, and by October 1st several villages in the Garhshankar Tahsl
were infected ; the Hoshirpur and Una Tahsls became infected during this month, but with
the exception of a few imported cases the Dasya Tahsl remained free of plague until
February.
The epidemic was very severe and widespread in the Garhshankar and Hoshirpur
Tahsls, but less so in the Una and Dasya Tahsls.
The difference is probably due in the case of the Una Tahsl to the scattered nature of
the population, the villages consisting chiefly of such groups of houses in the low hills
compared in this tahsl. To the late commencement of the epidemic in the Dasya Tahsl is
probably due to the comparatively small number of plague cases and deaths. Details of the
outbreak in each tahsl are given below. It will be noticed that while the disease was
most widespread in the Garhshankar and Hoshirpur Tahsls, the case mortality was highest
in the Una and Dasya Tahsls :-
Tahsls.
Number of
towns and
villages.
Population.
Number of infected
towns and villages.
Population.
Cases.
Deaths.
Garhshankar
473
261,468
271
185,141
12,386
6,720
Una
525
225,198
32
30,402
996
705
Hoshirpur
493
264,112
132
137,627
8,129
4,463
Dasya
637
239,004
23
33,585
848
540
Details not available
5
78
72
Total
2,128
989,782
463
386,755
22,437
12,500