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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![Of the schemes considered by the Board during the year projects for various works amounting to Rs. 84,25,913 were administratively or finally appro ved. Loans amounting to Rs. 7,97,000 were also sanctioned by Government for sanitary projects during the year under report. 88. In this connexion a reference is invited to the para in the report of the Secretary, Board of Public Health Improvement of (appendix B of this report) explaining the present ^ eas* ^ mra* position regarding the installing of pumps in covered wells in rural areas. Subsequently, copies of a note prepared by the Director of Public Health and the Superintending Engineer, Public Health department, and approved by the Board of Public Health, giving detailed instructions have been sent out to the district boards concerned and final action in the matter will be taken on receipt of their replies. As many district boards had sufficient balances of the previous grants at their disposal for expenses towards improving their water-supply and as the question of popularising pumps and removing difficulties in their work¬ ing was under consideration no fresh grant to district boards was made by the Board of Public Health during the year under report. Appendix C attached to this report gives details of these balances and the amounts expended by district boards during 1925, lb will be seen that the district boards spent only Rs. 21,638, leaving a balance of Rs. 69,703 still with them. Of the boards who spent nothing during the year in spite of having balances varying from Rs. 3,169 bo Rs. 8,562, the most conspicuous were Bareilly, Budaun, Pilibhit, Fyzabad, and Bara Banki, 89. Grants amounting to Rs. 40,376 were sanctioned by the Board rn , . of Public Health, United Provinces, for carrying i age pane aya s. ou^ san^ary improvements through village pancha- yats* Like last year, allotments were made to all commissioners of divisions for distribution to village pcmchayats on condition that they would contribute equal amounts towards the cost of the works proposed to be carried out by them. 90, With a view to dividing the existing leper asylums, such as they T , are, into leper hospitals where treatment is carried p y * out on modern lines and into ieper asylums where segregation only is attempted, the Local Government issued orders placing them under the control of the Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals and the Director of Public Health, respectively. As the Local Government have sanctioned an annual recurring grant of Rs. 15,000 for the Maclaren Leper Asylum, Dehra Dun, the restrictions to admissions other than those from Dehra Dun and the adjoining districts have been abolished and it is now open to lepers from any part of the province. No further action was taken in the matter of erection of a leper asylum and colony at Benares by the Salvation Army, as the land on which it was to be erected has not yet been- acquired. 91, During 1925 all the important fairs and religious gatherings held r . H . in the United Provinces presented practically a mpor n airs. c]ean bill of health, with the exception that 2 cases of smali-pox were detected at the Lakarmandi ghat during the Sawan Jhula fair at Ajodhya which passed off quietly with no epidemic. These cases were prevented from going to Ajodhya. Five imported cholera cases also occurred at the Katki fair at Ajodhya. At the Arya Samaj](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31404881_0070.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
