Ahmednagar Inoculation Statistics / compiled by C. Hudson.

  • Hudson, C.
Date:
1900
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Credit: Ahmednagar Inoculation Statistics / compiled by C. Hudson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From—The Personal Assistant to the Collector of Ahmednagar ; To—The Plague Commissioner, Bombay Presidency. I have the honour, in continuation of this office No. 9173, dated 28th Octo* ber 1899, to forward further inoculation statistics for this district. 2. These statistics bring Mr. Anderson’s compilation up to date and deal with the Cantonment and certain City groups. 3. Major Sarkies, i.m.s., deals with the City as a whole in a report which has been forwarded separately. A HME JDNAGAR INOCULATION ST A TISTICS—{continued). Compiled by Mr. C. Hudson, I.C.S., Personal Assistant to the Collector of Ahmednagar. Mr. Anderson’s compilation related to nine villages. It is now necessary to deal with only four of these; but one of them (Bhingar) is an important place. These four places are Bhingar (population 1,209), Nagardevla (popula- tion 1,116), Darevadi (population 513), and Vakodi (population 885). The other five places had no further cases. A doubtful case occurred in Arangaon in an inoculated person, which was not fatal. It was not seen by a medical officer; it occurred nearly five months after the last case, and was followed by no other case ; so it is omitted from these calculations. 2. The statistics of these four places are governed by Mr. Anderson’s remarks. Mr. Anderson has, however, through oversight omitted to mention an important concession which he allowed ; it was that inoculated cases were allowed to be treated in their own homes, and of course inoculated contacts were not disturbed. This concession had to be withdrawn after a time on Dr. Hill’s representation that it was doing harm in Bhingbr, but no occasion arose for putting the withdrawal into effect, and it is quite possible that Hr. Hill’s fears were exaggerated. I must also mention that I tested the Bhingar figures at page 4 of Mr. Anderson’s compilation. My total came to 32,889 and exceeds Mr. Anderson’s by 1,551. The mistake is, however, trifling and not in favour of inoculation. 3. At the end will be found statements for the four villages named in paragraph 1. From them the following information has been boiled down:— Average daily strength. Number Cases. Deaths. Place. Inoculated. |lJninoculated. of days. Inoculated. Uninoculated. Inoculated. *6 Q» 4-5 o3 P o o .2 *S & Remarks. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Bhingdr ... 3,652 478a 85 19 24 14 19 a Column 3.—The figure is really 478-47 Nagardevla 5215 521c 81 11 13 3 17 d b Column 2.—Correct figure is 521-2 c Column 3.—Correct figure is 521-4 d Column 8. — 4 attacks shown in Mr. Anderson’s statement appear as deaths here Darevadi.. 455c 46/ 33 8 3 5 3 e Column 2.—Really 454’57 f Column 3.—Really 45*97 VAkodi 731 g 111 50 10 2 5 1 g Column 2.—Really 730-7 PI 1035-1