Annual sanitary report of the Province of Assam.

  • Assam
Date:
[1944]
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Credit: Annual sanitary report of the Province of Assam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    9 21. Emigration and Immigration.—The only figures available are those of immigrant labour employed by the Tea Industry of Assam. No record is available of the numbers of agricultural or other casual immigrants. The Statement below shows the number of tea garden labourers who entered Assam during 1944 :— Month Total Number of Tea Garden Labour Immigrants entering Assam during 1944 January 1944 ... ... ... ... ... ... _ 4,439 February 1944 ... . ... ... ... 7,758 March 1944 ... ... ... ... ... ... 10,713 April 1944 . 10,499 May 1944 ... ... ... ... ... ... , 7,600 June 1944 ... ... ... ... ... ... 4,589 July 1944 ... ... ... ... ••• ... 1,641 August 1944 ... ... ... ... ... ... 486 September 1944 ... ... ... ... ... ...• 304 October 1944 ... ... ... ... ... ... 318 November 1944 ... ... ... ... ... ... 615 December 1944 ... ... ... ... ... ... 2,507 Total 51,469 During 1943, 64,485 labourers entered Assam, while during 1942 the total number was 19,088. During the year 1944, 613 cases of sickness among the immigrant labour were reported of whom 50 died . A total of 45 labourers was treated at the Gauhati Emigration Hospstal, of whom there were 7 cases of Cholera, 13 cases of Small-pox. 4 cases of Gerebro-Spinal Fever and 12 cases of Measles. CHAPTER HI The state of Public Health and History of Chief Diseases A.—PUBLIC HEALTH 22. The general state of public health in the Province remained fairly satisfactory in spite of many adverse factors directly or indirectly affecting the health of the population. Death-rate for 1944 (16-87) is slightly higher than that for 1943(16-34), but is lower than the quinquennial average of 16 99. There was an increase in the total number of deaths from the previous year by 7,617. But the most disturbing feature of the year is the considerable fall in the birth-rate and the increase in the infantile mortality rate from 131-02 in 1943 to 16T95 in 1944. The following table shows the death-rates per mille from the chief causes of mortality during the year 1944 as compared with the previous quinquennium. Disease ... 1944 1939-43 Difference (—) or (+) Urban Rural Combined Urban Rural 1 Combined 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Cholera .. 0-38 0-42 0-41 0-48 0-89 0-88 0-47 Small-pox 1-43 1-18 1-18 0-21 ©13 0-13 + 1-05 Plague .. ... Nil Fevers 5--69 10-67 10-53 4-22 10-61 10-42 + o-ii Dysentery and Diarrhoea .. 2-30 T08 1-12 2-17 1-06 1-09 + 0-03 Respiratory Diseases 119 0-43 0-46 1-63 0-52 i -55 0-09 Injuries .. 0-50 0-16 0-17 0-48 0-18 0-19 + T48 Other causes 6-18 2-90 3-00 6-11 3-49 3-73 2-23 Total 17-67 16-84 16-87 15-31 1 17-04 16-99 — 0‘12 Compared with the previous year the death-rate from Cholera was lower and from Small-pox appreci¬ ably higher than that for 1943. The following table shows the birth-rate, death-rate and infantile mortality rate of each Province in India during 1944 :— Province Birth-rate Death-rate Infantile Mortality rate Assam ... 16-77 16-87 161 95 Bengal ... 1614 2912 207*90 Bihar 20-63 22-19 111-29 Orissa 25-24 30 36 208-26 Central Provinces 37-98 3012 221-38 Madras ... 29-39 2540 192-44 Bombay ... 33-93 25-47 166 09 United Provinces • • * » 25*09 18-74 124-53 Punjub ... 36-78 25-26 17315 N.-W. F. Province 17-17 13-97 128-56 Sind . • • • 14-94 11-86 136 00 In making a comparative study of these figures, it has to be noted that the accuracy and completeness of registration varies from Province to Province.
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