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:
- [1925]
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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![( 14 ) 44. The highest, death-rate (8*67) was recorded in Bnlandshahr while Muttra and Meerut returned death-rates of 7*10 Plague in districts. and 5*78, respectively. The districts of Dehra Dun, (b a emen Mainpuri, Pilibhit, Jhansi, Naini Tal, Almora, Garhwal and Partabgarh were entirely free from plague while in 3 districts the number did not exceed 10. 45. Out of 90 towns 43 were affected. Those Blague in towns, showing highest rates were Hapur (18*74), Khurja (Statement VI B ) • (15.4ofan|Gangoh (14-18). 20 towns reported deaths below 0. Urban and rural mor¬ tality from plague. (Statement VI.) 46. The death-rate from plague in urban areas was *91 and in the rural tracts T09 against 1-05 and 1'25, respectively, in 1924. FEVERS. total number of deaths reported from fevers was 875,594 yielding a provincial ratio of 19*30 per mille of the population. These figures compare favourably with those for 1924 when the number of deaths from fevers and the death-rate were 947,807 and 20* 89, respectively. The average for the past five years was 23*79. The largest; number of deaths occurred in May and the smallest in August. As May is not by any means a malarious month it shows how utterly unreliable the present reporting agency is for recording the causes of deaths. Probably a large number of the deaths attributed to malaria are due to tuberculosis and other respiratory diseases. According to the sub-classification, 765,799 were attributed to malaria, 10,313 to enteric fever, 19,140 to measles, 339 to relapsing fever, 95 to kala azar and 79,908 to other fevers. The highest fever death-rate (33*61) was recorded in the district of Bulandshahr and was followed by Moradabad with 28*92 and Meerut with 28*62. The lowest rates were returned from Gonda (12*25), Fatehpur (12*40) and Dehra Dun (13*17). Amongst the towns, high fever death-rates were recorded in Sikandra- bad (50*54), Kairana (50*23), Kandkla (42*74) and Khurja (40*75). Of the towns showing the lowest rates, Mubarakpur (Azamgarh) stood first with 1*20 followed by Naini Tal with 1*34, Mussoorie with 2*01 and Dehra Dun with 4*74. 47. In 1925, the Deaths and death- rates from fevers in districts and towns. (Statements IX and VI-B.) 48. Daring the year the mortality from fevers in urban areas was Urban and ruralmor- 16*33 and in the rural tracts 19 51, the co^re- tality from fevers. sponding ratios for the preceding year being 48 (Statement VI,) and 21* 13, respectively. 49. During 1925, the recorded number of deaths from relapsing fever . f _ was 339, from enteric fever 10,313 and from kala azar tericfeve/and6rkafa 95 as compared with 186, 13,652 and 104, respec- azar. tively, in 1924. A comparative table showing the m- [Statement VI (a).] cidenee of these diseases as reported by the verified as well as the unverified agency is given in paragraph 59 of this report. From the special reports received from the civil surgeons and district medical officers of health it appears that there was no epidemic of relapsing fever, but 50 cases were reported from Naini Tal and a few from 13 other districts.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31404881_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
