10                                   PLAGUE IN RAJPUTANA.

98. There were 506 in and 25,264 out-door patients treated and 860 opera-
tions performed as per details below against 607 in and 30,119 out-door pa-
tients and 835 operations in the previous year: —

99.  Eight hundred and forty-three patients were visited at their homes at
Ajmer.

                                                JAILS.

100.  Ajmer.—The daily average number of prisoners in the Ajmer jail
rose to 319.13 from 296.65 in 1910. The total number of admissions into
hospital and the daily average number of sick during the year under report
was 227 and 9.17 as compared with 219 and 7.78 in the previous year. The
number of deaths fell from 3 in 1910 to 2 in 1911 due to (1) Tuberculosis of
the lungs among convicts and (2) to Pneumonia among under-trials.

101.  The review by the Commissioner, Ajmer-Merwara, on the strength,
classification, health, employment and conduct of prisoners, nature of sen-
tences, Jail manufactures, and expenditure of the jail is given as appendix A
of the Report together with statements.

Native States.

102.  The daily average number of prisoners in the jails in the Native
States fell from 3,944.60 in 1910 to
3,902.23 in 1911, the daily average num-
ber of sick from 77.12 to 69.84, the mortality from 77 to 72 and the ratio of
deaths per mille of strength from 19.52 to 18.45—this shows the healthiness of
the year.

103.  There was no cholera or other epidemic disease in any of the jails in
Rajputana in 1911.

104.  There were no deaths in the Jails at Jhalrapatan, Partabgarh and
Dungarpur.

105.  Bharatpur.—The total number of cases admitted into Hospital fell
from 66 in 1910 to 65 in 1911, the mortality from 5 to 2 and the ratio of deaths
per mille of average strength from 24.90 to 10.64, on the whole this shows the
health of the prisoners in this Jail was satisfactory.

106.   Udaipur.—The health was very good except for an epidemic of
mumps which appeared among the prisoners. It was introduced by a batch of
Sansi prisoners sent from Morella Jail for admission into the Central Jail. The
cases were segregated and treated in a separate shed.

107. There were only 8 deaths in 1911 against 20 in 1910 of which 2 were
due to Dysentery, 1 to acute Colitis, 1 Bright's disease, 1 to Cerebral abscess,
1 to Enteric Fever, 1 to Hyperpyrexia and 1 to Pyæmia.

108. Steady improvement in the condition of prisoners and the management
of this Jail are being made under the superintendence of Babu Ram Saran
Jailor.

                              QUALIFIED MEDICAL STAFF.

Commissioned Medical Officers.

109.  There were 11 Commissioned Medical Officers' appointments in
Rajputana in 1911 as in the previous year.

110.  Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. B. Robinson, I.M.S., Residency Surgeon
and Chief Medical Officer in Rajputana, held charge of the current duties