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:
- [1947]
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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![2. Expenditure by District Boards on Public Health—The total re¬ ceipts of District Boards in the Province from all sources including Gov- ernment grant during the year 1946-47 was Rs. 3,02,42,195 out of which expenditure on Public Health was as follows:— l Rs. i. Public health staff iticludirg all establishment charges on health public • • 2,78,581 2 Vital statistics (registration of births and deaths) • 9 • • • • 3. Maternity and child welfare] • • • • 16,553 4. Vaccination • • • • 4,77,905 5. Epidemic diseases excluding hospitals, dispensaries diseases hospitals but including cost of quinine and infectious 43,564 6. Fairs and markets • • • • 33,477 7. Slaughter-houses! • • • • 3,601 8. Infectious Diseases Hospitals • • ■ 0 2,169 9. Conservancy f C^P^al ' * ( Ordinary • - • • • • • • • • 9 9 • • 4,495 10. Drains [ Capital .. Drainage £ Ordinary.. • • • • 9 • • • 3,657 2,392 11. Water Supply f ^aP|taI tL j ^ Ordinary • • • • • • • • 880 10,395 12. Food Adulteration • • • • • • 13. Town or village improvement (such as widening and paving of and removal of obstructions) streets 9 9 15*932 14. Public health propaganda « • • 9 2,610 15. Miscellaneous sanitary charges .. .. 6,786 Total », • • 9,12,997 CHAPTER VII Malaria Malaria. Eight districts reported epidemic outbreak, against 12 in the previous year including some visited by floods. Over 7,84,000 tablets of Mepacrine and quinacrine hydrochloride £,57,400 tablets of Paludrine, 32 lbs. of quinine sulph. and 17i lbs. of cinchona febrifuge were issued free of charge out of Government stocks. Malarial surveys and investigations were carried out in 11 places, and advice rendered for control measures. Treatment schemes with quinine-plasmoquine and cinchona piasmo- quine were in operation in 211 villages of Terai and Bhabar Govern¬ ment Estates—an hyper-endemic area for malaria. The estate also dis¬ tributed anti-malarial drugs to its tenants free of charge as a measure of relief against malaria. Special Anti-malaria Units. Out of six units sanctioned only two were functioning at the end of the year for lack of staff. An Anti-malaria Unit was established at Kicha in Naini Tal district in connection with Terai Colonisation Scheme. Another similar unit was 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31405101_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
