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Total Plague Cases and Deaths in the Province of Sind.
Locality.
IMPORTED
INDIGENOUS
TOTAL
Percentages of Deaths to Cases.
Cases.
Deaths.
Cases.
Deaths.
Cases.
Deaths.
Karchi City
4, 181
3, 398
4,181
3,398
81.27
Karchi District.
Tatta
32
21
21
20
53
41
77.36
Jungshhi
18
9
10
8
28
17
60.71
Kotri
27
17
17
8
44
25
56.82
Other places
108
90
5
5
113
95
84.07
Total, Karachi District
185
137
53
41
238
178
74.79
Total, Karachi District,
including the City of Karachi
185
137
4,234
3,439
4,419
3,576
80.92
Hyderabad District.
Hyderabad
42
38
544
413
586
451
76.96
Tando Alahyr
5
4
13
11
18
15
83.33
Other places
37
33
37
33
89.19
Total, Hyderabad District
84
75
557
424
641
499
77.85
Shikrpur District.
Shikrpur
27
18
5
3
32
21
65.63
Sukkur
537
391
537
391
7281
Abad, Tluka Sukkur
6
3
39
29
45
32
71.11
Rohri
32
16
119
72
151
88
58.28
Thati, Tluka Rohri
3
3
47
33
50
36
72.00
Miani Baghat,
26
15
26
15
57.69
Tluka Rohri
Tando Mir Muhammad
Hasan, Tluka Rohri
4
1
16
15
20
16
80.00
Lrkhna
20
14
20
14
70.00
Khairpur Dahirki, Tluka Ubauro
34
24
34
24
7059
Other places
47
41
34
21
81
62
76.54
Total, Shikrpur District
139
96
857
603
996
699
70.18
Thar and Prkar District
3
2
...
...
3
2
66.67
Upper Sind Frontier
3
2
1
1
4
3
75.00
Total for the whole Province of Sind
414
312
5, 649
4,467
6,063
4,779
78.82
The weekly total of cases and deaths, imported and local, in each district
and in the chief towns and villages attacked, will be found in the appended
table, marked A.
With the exception of a few imported deaths, the Khairpur State remained
clear of plague, which was most creditable to the precautions taken by His
Highness the Mir's administration. His Highness also considerately offered the
services of his Assistant-Surgeon, when he heard doctors were required in Karchi,
but being the only Medical officer it was thought better that the Assistant-
Surgeon should remain where he was in case his services became necessary in the
State.
As already stated, the last plague cases in Hyderabad and Sukkur occurred
on the 2nd of June. The town of Rohri and the whole district of Shikrpur
were free of plague by the week ending the 25th June, though one death took
place in hospital on the 30th June. The Hyderabad hospitals were closed on the
15th, and the Sukkur and Rohri hospitals on the 30th June. Plague lingered
fitfully in Karchi till the 27th July, when it finally ceased, and the last case
was discharged from hospital on the 6th August. In accordance with the terms
of the Venice Sanitary Convention of 1897, 10 days must elapse from death or
discharge of the last case. By Notification No. 4039, dated 17th August 1897,
the City, Cantonment and Harbour of Karchi and the whole Province of Sind
were declared free from infection by plague, and on the 5th September there
were thanksgiving services in the churches of all denominations at Karchi.
The approximate expenditure incurred in connection with the plague is
detailed, so far as is at present possible, in Appendix C. The total amounts to