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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![The maximum number of deaths from these causes was returned in April and the minimum in June. Among the districts, Hamirpur and Lucknow as usual stood first and second, the death-rates being 5*60 and 3*77, respectively. Like last year Dehra Dun was third with a death-rate of 2*86. Agra and Cawnpore also showed high mortality where the death-rates were 2*83 and 1*91, respectively. Kheri and Rae Bareli returned the lowest mortality, the death-rates being *03 and *04, res¬ pectively, and were followed by Mainpuri and Gonda which returned death-rates of *04 and *06, respectively. 5 towns out of 90 did not report any deaths from these causes and in 11 the number of deaths did not exceed 10. The highest mortality (14*30) was recorded in Farrukhabad-cum-Fatehgarh. Kalpi followed with 13*25, Muttra with 12*31, Agra with 12*24 and Lucknow with 11*95. Among the towns returning the lowest mortality rates from these causes the most conspicuous were Sherkote in Bijnor with a death- rate of *07, Kairana in Muzaffaruagar with *12 and Sitapur with *16. Urban and rural 55. The urban mortality from these causes mortality from res- during the year under report was 6*50 and the piratory diseases rural mortality *16 as compared with 6*43 and (Statement VI.) • 19, respectively, in the preceding year. There is no doubt that many deaths from respiratory diseases, especially pneumonia and tuberculosis are not diagnosed, but are merely returned as fever. The high death-rate from these diseases in towns where the causes of mortality are better reported and the low rate in rural areas is a further proof of the fact that the majority of deaths from respiratory diseases in rural tracts are reported as “ fever.v INJURIES. 56. During 1925 the total number of deaths recorded binder injuries Deaths from several was 21,900. Of these, 1,941 were suicides. 14,806 minor causes. were due to wounds and accidents. Snakes and wild (Statement VI.) beasts were responsible for 4,822 and rabies for 331, (Further details are given in Statement VI.) ALL OTHER CAUSES. Deaths and death- rates under the heading “ All other causes.” (Statement VI-) 57« During 1925 a total of 123,125 deaths was recorded under this head as compared with 149,738 in 1924. The death-rates for the two years were 2*71 and 3*30, respectively. 58. During the year under report 1,408 deaths occurred during child-birth as against 1,544 in the preceding year. 59. The sub-joined table shows the ratios of deaths per cent, of the total number of deaths in the returns submitted by Accuracy of the medical staff and the ordinary registration re uins. agency as well as the calculated number of deaths on the data supplied by the qualified agency and the actual number of deaths reported by ordinary agency. From the statement it would appear that the death returns submitted by the unqualified agency in the case of dysentery, kala azar and pneumonia, are much below what they should be while in the case of small-pox, plague, relapsing fever and malaria, the Deaths from child¬ birth, [Statement VI(a).]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31404881_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
