Annual report of the Director of Public Health of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.
- United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (India). Public Health Department
- Date:
- [1928]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual report of the Director of Public Health of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Although the provincial infantile mortality during the year under report was slightly higher than that of last year, it was much less than that in other years and the decennial averages for 1901—-1910 and 1911—1920. f 1^°!]^ received from municipal medical officers of health show that out o 1,354 deaths reported as due to tetanus 756 were verified. Out of this ' weie found actually due to this cause. No deaths were report¬ ed to have occurred from this cause in the municipalities of Mussoorie, Meerut, Hapur, Muzaffarnagar, Brindabau, Chandausi, Amroha, Budaun, lansi and Nami Tal. This is no doubt due to defective registration ana the attention of the medical officers of health will be drawn to this tact. The Visweswar co-operative dairy at Benares was closed in 1928. The a1? Cn°i)euatlVe ^a*ry *n exiskence now is the Katra co-operative dairy, la la a , but on account of an embezzlement and want of proper super¬ vision it is running at a loss. It will be seen that the attempt to start co-operative dairies is not meeting with success. 20. The provincial infantile death-rate in 1928 was 159*90 as corn- Infautile mortality Pared w>th 151 *75 in 1927. Twenty-three districts in districts. returned infantile death-rates above and 25 below, „ . . ttle provincial average. As in the last two years, JNaini ial topped the list with a rate of 289*54 and was followed by Pilibhit ooi8'6^’ LTuoknow with 213*25, Shahjahanpur with 211*88 and Jhansi ^7 , ^7. these districts malaria was chiefly responsible for the ig rate. Other fevers ” also contributed to the increased infantile mor- *a lty in the districts of Lucknow, Shahjahanpur and Jhansi. Pneumonia, tetanus ancf convulsions, exhaustion ana malnutrition were the additional con ri utmg factors in the case of Lucknow, other respiratory diseases, tetanus and convulsions and “ other causes * in Shahjahanpur, tetanus and convulsions, exhaustion and malnutrition, and “ other causes ” in Jhansi and tetanus and convulsions and exhaustion and malnutrition in Pilibhit. u tra, Kae Bareli, Gorakhpur, Etah and Fatehpur exhibited the lowest ]6 morta* the rafces being 107‘05, 115*55, 115*62, 130*08 and 150*36, respectively, 21. The provincial municipal infantile death-rate in 1928 was 255*81 Infantile mortality as againsfc 233*77 in 1927. Out of 85 munici- in municipalities. Polities 31 recorded an infantile death-rate higher . fchan the provincial rate. Among the municipalities ie uining the highest rates Cawnpore topped the list with a rate of 383*91 !f «q!« 0oWLd ll E5o!an' Jhansi- Soroa aQd Bisalpur with death-rates of 379 35, 346-56, 337*98 and 335-34, respectively. “ Other fevers ” were the common cause of infantile mortality in the above municipalities w tn the exception of Bisalpur where the high rate was chiefly due to tetanus and convulsions and malaria. In Cawnpore pneumonia, “ other causes and other respiratory diseases also contributed to swell the rate, vvtnle in Etawah and Jhansi exhaustion and malnutrition, in Etawah other causes and m Soron malaria were the additional factors. Ballia returned the lowest infantile mortality (118-94) and was followed by the nmGhaziabad (185*27), Lakhimpur (161*40), Ujhani <167*40) and Ghazipur (167*85). J](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31404911_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
