DISPENSARIES IN RAJPUTANA.                  7

Amritlal and his staff has been most valuable. They have worked indefati-
gably in house disinfection and street cleaning.

66.  During the year the Banswara and Partabgarh remained free from the
disease.

67.  Marwar.—There were 764 cases and 580 deaths reported in 37 infected
towns and villages against 4,245 cases and 3,455 deaths in 100 towns and
villages in 1910-11. The disease remained prevalent during the months of.
April and May from which date only 15 cases and 11 deaths were reported to
the close of the year.

68.  Tonk.—In Tonk 359 cases were reported in 10 infected towns and
villages of which 241 proved fatal against 3,489 cases and 2,924 deaths in the
previous year.

69.  Jhalawar.—Plague was brought into Sri Chaturpur in Jhalawar on
the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway by a case from one of the
infected places in the Indore State. The first case was reported on the
11th January and the last case on 21st February 1912. During that period there
were 44 cases and 29 deaths.

70.  Kotah.—The disease on the 28th February 1912 broke out in
Dharnawad village in the Kotah State 2 miles from Sri Chaturpur. Only 27
cases and 17 deaths were reported.

71.  Dholpur.—During April and May 1911 Dholpur State returned 38
seizures and 30 deaths in 3 infected villages.

72.  Lieutenant-Colonel P. Carr-White, I.M.S., reports "it is satisfactory
to note that villagers thoroughly understand the value of evacuation of houses;
they also allow disinfection when plague has broken out but precautionary
measures in the way of inoculation, rat exterminations, etc., are practically
barred."

73.  A plague map showing the districts where outbreaks occurred, the
date of the first and last cases and the death rate per 10,000 of population is
attached.

                                    STATEMENT F.

74.  Shows the classes and sexes of both in-door and out-door patients treated
in the dispensaries of Ajmer-Merwara and of Native States of Rajputana.
The following shows the classes of patients treated in 1910 and 1911:—

                                    STATEMENT G.

75. The number of surgical operations performed in Ajmer-Merwara and
in Native States during the year was 70,185 against 68,446 in 1910. The
number of patients operated on was 69,888 as compared with 68,177 in the
previous year, of these the cases cured amounted to 69,208, the numbers
relieved 220, discharged otherwise 137 and died 80 against 67,356, 332, 181 and
90 in 1910, while 243 remained under treatment on 31st December 1911 against
218 in 1910.