Annual report of the Director, Medical & Health Department / Colony of Mauritius.

  • Mauritius. Medical and Health Department
Date:
[1910]
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Credit: Annual report of the Director, Medical & Health Department / Colony of Mauritius. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AXNEXURE I (a) BETURN OF THE STATISTICS OF POPULATION FOR THE YEAR 1910. Humber of inhabitants on 31.12.09 ... „ Births during the year* 1910 ,, Deaths „ ,, 1910 ,, Immigrants „ 1910 „ Emigrants ,, 1910 Humber of inhabitants on 31.12.10 .. Increase or ... Decrease Europeans, Whites, Mixed and Coloured. Afri¬ cans. Indians. Chinese. Total. 106,581 2,293 259,869 4,328 373,071 4,008 ... 9,330 • « • 13,338 3,274 23 9,091 100 12,488 1,901 • • • 1,265 668 3,834 1,590 . • • 1,398 620 3,608 107,626 2,270 259,975 4,276 374,147 1,045 • . • 106 ... 1,076 23 52 GO METEOROLOGICAL RETURN FOR TFIE YEAR 1910. ROYAL ALFRED OBSERVATORY. Months. Temperature. Rain¬ fall. Degree of Humidity. | Winds. Remarks. si co * S fl O 3 GO .So s 0f! ]i a S rH CD rj 'S a 02 .9 s <D 60 p & a c3 CD P GO +2 <D 3 ^ d o o 0 2 ^ <1 r-n 9 c3 O P 1 £ og 0 2 P s a CD 05 P-t 6D s | January... February.. March ... April May June July August ... September October ... November December. Year ... 158.8 163.4 156.5 154.9 147.4 139.4 142.2 143.6 150.3 155.2 159.4 158.7 62.6 58.1 62.6 57.9 50.5 45.9 47.7 45.1 47.1 50.5 55.2 59.9 o 90.2 87.5 84.5 85.3 82.1 80.2 78.0 78.1 79.3 83.2 84.7 •88.5 O 68.1 65.2 68.0 65.1 58.0 54.5 54.9 53.5 55.3 60.4 61.5 67.3 o 22.1 22.3 16.5 20.2 24.1 25.7 23.1 24.6 24.0 22.8 23.2 21.2 o 78.8 77.7 76.9 75.2 70.9 67.4 68.2 67.2 69.2 71.7 74.1 77.6 Ins. 7.13 4.00 9 70 2.70 0.94 0.58 4.01 2.52 1.13 1,62 1.73 2.73 7 / 0 77.3 .76.0 83.0 80.0 76.7 71.5 75.6 72.8 71.6 69.1 68.5 72.6 E | N E.b.S. East E.S.E.pj. E.S.E.iS. E.S.E.iS. E.S.E E.S.E.JE. E.S.E iS. E.b.S. E.b.S. E.b.N. 12.0 8.3 8.9 9.4 8.3 9.1 10.1 10.5 10.4 9.8 12.4 9.3 The total rain¬ fall for the year at 12 St tions in Ma >t ritiu was 18.5 ofobej low no rmal. In May & J une it was 57. 3 o[0 and 66.1 oio be¬ low normal. In July and September it was 44.5 o[o and 28.0 oio above normal. 163.4 Feb. 7 45.1 Aug. 21 90.2 Jan. 5 53.6 Aug. 21 36.7 25.7 June 72.9 38 79 74.6 E.b.S. 9.9 ANNEXURE III. Annual Report on the work done in the Sanitary Branch during 1910. • .._ The appended tabular statements show the details of the work done by the sanitary officers in Port Louis and the rural districts respectively. Port Louis :—The inspections of private premises and lodging houses during the year amounted to 11,525 and 67 respectively, while those of shops, markets, bake houses, slaughterhouses and butchers'shops numbered 2,697. Special enquiries and duties as well as the supervision of cremations and exhumations, &c., were attended to by the staff on 10,117 occasions. Stables, cow-sheds, and pig-sties were the subject of 1,943 inspections and the performance of the night soil service called for 262 special controls. The number of visits to Government Establishments, public and private gratuitous latrines, cemeteries, noxious factories, camps, water courses and lavatories was 2,380. The waste lands in the town and suburbs were cleaned over an area of 449,644 square yards. The staff of disinfectors in charge of quarantine duties were employed on a total of 214 days on such work.