Bengal public health report.

  • Bengal (India). Public Health Department
Date:
[1939]
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Credit: Bengal public health report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    8. Decadent areas.—The following statement shows the decadent area in each district of the Bengal Presidency during the year 1939 as compared with the previous year: — Decadent Areas in Bengal. Districts. Total decadent area in square miles. Percentage of districts. Improve¬ ment— or retrogres¬ sion +. 1938. 1939. 1938. 1939. Burdwan Division— Burdwan 1,368 1,788 50-6 66-1 4- Birbhum 230 597 13-5 35-1 + Bankura 700 700 26-7 26*7 ± Midnapur 1,286 693 24-5 13-2 — Hooghly 517 169 43-5 14-2 — Howrah 10 10 1-9 1-9 ± Presidency Division— 24-Parganas 855 6 16-2 •1 — Nadia 619 8 21-5 •3 — Murshidabad 81 257 3-9 12-3 + Jessore 1,247 « « 42-9 • • Khulna 240 • • 5-1 • • — Rajshahi Division— Rajshahi 1,116 • • 44-5 » « — Dinajpur 429 6 10-9 •2 — Jalpaiguri * • 356 * • 12-1 + Darjeeling 91 331 7-5 27-3 + Rangpur 622 276 17-8 7-9 — Bogra 886 • • 59-5 * • — Pabna 1,474 • • 810 • • — Malda 354 153 20-1 8-7 — Dacca Division— Dacca 580 * , 21-4 • • — Mymensingh 2,524 599 40-4 9-6 — Faridpur 815 5 34*6 •2 — Bakarganj 1,123 • • 31-9 • • — Chittagong Division— Chittagong .. 1 288 •04 11-2 + Noakhali • • • • « * • Tippera 4 • • •2 • • 9. Registration and verification of vital events.—The corner-stone of all public health measures must be an accurate and prompt reporting of all vital events but in Bengal although the Bengal Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1873, has been long in operation throughout the province, no uniform procedure for collection of statistics has yet been evolved. In 1930 this important subject was discussed in the Divisional Commissioners’ Conference. The local Government in the light of the above discussion instructed the Bengal Public Health Department to experiment the following three methods : —> Q) Consolidation by District Health Officers of Union Board reports; (2) Consolidation by Sanitary Inspectors of Union Board reports j and (3) Direct collection of statistics by Sanitary Inspectors at chaukidari parade in the thana.
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