Report on Plague and Inoculation Operations, Amritsar District

never visited the village before or indeed any other village near it, still the people themselves were, to a certain extent alive to the exigencies of the situation. ' 3. Gradual spread.?The 2nd village was Vairka population 3,709, about 7 miles from Amritsar where the disease soon obtained a strong hold, and caused 175 cases with 113 deaths before the epidemic came to an end. The third place to become infected was Maiitha a large centre and Municipal Town, population 6,490, about 12 miles to the north of Amritsar Kasel and Gandiwind, two large contiguous villages in the west of the Tarn Taran Tehsil, became infected the former from Vairka and the latter from Amritsir City. These places, and later, Tarn Taran, population 4,428, 15 miles south of Amritsar, and Jand:ala population 7,877, both Municipal Towns, which became infected on 27th November and 8th January formed the principal foci from which the infection '