Annual report on the health of the population of West Bengal.
- West Bengal (India). Directorate of Health Services
- Date:
- [1950]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual report on the health of the population of West Bengal. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![areas while 10,373 deaths with a death rate of 0-6 per mille were registers in rural areas. Calcutta with a death rate of 2*1 was alone responsible fo 73 per cent, of total deaths due to this cause in urban areas. Pulmonary tuberculosis.—This disease was responsible for 7,721 deaths ii 1950 against 7,984 deaths in the previous year. The death rate was 0-4 pet mille for both these years. The death rates in the urban and rural areas wen 0-9 and 0-2 respectively during 1950. TABLE. Deaths from Tuberculosis of lungs in urban and rural areas of West Bengal froir 1946-1950. Year. Calcutta. Other municipal towns. Rural areas. Total for the State. A r~ No. — i Rate. (- No. > Rate. fNo. Rate. No. Rate. 1946 2,609 1 -3 1,330 0-6 3,288 0-2 7,227 0-3 1947 2,844 1 -4 1,351 0-6 3,442 0-2 7,637 0-4 1948 2,896 1 -5 1,347 0 -6 3,829 0 -2 8,072 0 -4 1949 2,689 1 -3 1,345 0-6 3,950 0 -2 7,984 0-4 1950 2,705 1 -3 1,159 0-5 3,857 0-2 7,721 0 -4 The above table reveals that there was no change in the trend of the mortality due to this disease in any of the areas specified in the table during the period from 1946 to 1950. Whooping cough.—Altogether 752 deaths (67 urban and 685 rural) were recorded in 1950 as against 893 total deaths in the previous year. Other respiratory diseases.—-9,730 deaths were recorded under this heac during 1950 against 8,809 deaths in the previous year; the death rates bein^ 0*4 per milJe for both these years. Injuries.—7,478 deaths due to injuries were recorded in the State during 1950 against 7913 deaths in the previous year, the death rate being 0-4 pe] mille for both these years. Table below will show the number of persons who died of various type ol injuries during 1949 and 1950:— Number of deaths --A- Causes. Homicide Suicide Wounds and accidents Snake bites . . Attacks of wild animals Rabies Total deaths due to injuries All other causes.—Total deaths due to all other causes were 95,347 against 105,438 in the preceding year, the death rates being 4-45 and 4-6 respectively per 1,000 of population. 1949 1950. 230 273 1,245 1,092 4,551 4,495 1,676 1,415 91 77 120 126 7,913 7,478](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31406580_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
