Annual report of the Director of Public Health for the Government of Bombay.

  • Bombay (India : State). Public Health Department.
Date:
[1936]
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Credit: Annual report of the Director of Public Health for the Government of Bombay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    under malaria is not material. In Thana and Bombay Suburban Districts in spite of fewer deaths from epidemic disease, the mortality rate increasec on account of more deaths from fevers including enteric fever, respirator] diseases including phthisis, and diarrhoea and dysentery. In Ahmedabac District, more deaths were recorded under fevers and respiratory diseases | which probably include many deaths from tuberculosis. In Poomj District in spite of complete absence of plague and fewer deaths undeij small-pox, the death-rate has increased on account of more deaths bein£ reported mainly under cholera and respiratory diseases including phthisis i The death-rates for rural and urban areas for the Presidency were] 27*55 and 28*44 per mille respectively against 28*45 and 28*48 in 1935, 21. Death-rates in rural areas.—Of the one hundred and eighty-three talukas, petas and mahals in the Presidency no taluka recorded a death-rate above 50 per mille of population. Four, i.e., Bardoli, Mulshi, Hangal and Siddapur returned death-rates between 40 and 50 per mille, twelve death-rates between 35 and 40 per mille, forty-seven between 30 and 35 per mille, one hundred and ten, between 20 and 30 per mille and the remaining ten returned death-rates below 20 per mille. There is a good deal of improvement in the groups between 40 and 50 and between 30 and 35 as compared with the preceding year. The highest rate (43 * 68) was reported in Bardoli taluka of Surat district which was due to higher incidence of Fevers and Respiratory Diseases in the taluka during the year and lowest in Ambernath taluka. 22. Death-rates in urban areas.—Out of the eighty-five urban registration circles in the Presidency only Pandharpur town reported a death-rate over 50 per mille, four returned death-rates between 40 and 50 per mille of population, 18 death-rates between 30 and 40 per mille, 32 death-rates between 20 and 30 per mille and the remaining 32 returned death-rates below 20 per mille. There is a decrease in areas reporting death-rates above 50 and between 40 and 50 per mille as compared with 1935. Death-rates varied from 54*38 per mille for Pandharpur town and 48*44 per mille for Ahmedabad town to 7*88 per mille for Honavar town and 9*52 for Uran town. The high death- rate of Pandharpur is due to fevers including malaria, dysentery, diarrhoea and respiratory diseases. Malaria probably is the direct and indirect cause of this high mortality in Pandharpur town. The death-rates in towns of Gujarat continue to be higher. This is mainly due to higher incidence of fevers and Respiratory Diseases under which many deaths from tuberculosis are reported. The towns on the coast line continue to remain healthy and the lowest death rates have been again claimed by Honavar and Uran ports as during the last year. The deaths recorded in Bombay City were 29,729 or 612 more than in the previous year, the ratio being 25*59 per mille or an increase of *52. 23. Death-rates in Cantonments.—The lowest death-rate (8*39) was recorded in Belgaum Cantonment and the highest 29*57 in Kirkee. The death-rates recorded in other cantonments were Ahmednagar 18*75, Poona 15*75, Ahmedabad 18*06 and Deolali 9*65 per mille of the population.