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:
- [1924]
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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![Bacteriological examinations of water and of stools for the detection of cholera carriers were carried out at the Adh Kumbh fair by the Medical Officer of Health of the Allahabad municipality. Government have approved of my proposals regarding the arrange- ments to be made for carrying out bacteriological work at certain impor¬ tant fairs and the local bodies concerned have been asked to givs effect] to them, & 87. During September and October extensive floods occurred in cer¬ tain parts of the province. The Public Health Floods* department took its share of the relief measures adopted by deputing travelling dispensaries to tour in the afiected areas to look after the sick. Travelling dispensaries were specially mobilised for this purpose and quinine of the value of 3as. 7,000 was distribute !. Three hundred and twenty lbs. of permanga¬ nate of potash were also issued for the disinfection of wells. The civil surgeons concerned were authorised to draw as required, on the reserve of quinine maintained by them for free distribution in malaria epidemics. The Director of Public Health and the Assistant Directors of Public Health visited the flooded areas and advised the local authorities .on the necessary precautionary measures to guard against the spread of epidemic disease. As a result of these floods, many.villages and village houses need¬ ed re-construction and re-building. . The opportunity was, therefore, taken to advise re-construction on. sanitary lines. With this object copies of plans of model villages and village houses were prepared at the instance of the Hon’ble Minister and were supplied to all district magistrates, district boards, etc., etc. 88. The Principal logical and conditions. following brief note on the. principal meteorological and meteoro- weather conditions in these provinces has been weather kindly furnished by the Director General of Observatories : — The cold weather period, January and February.—The western disturbances of the period produced a moderate excess of rainfall in the United Provinces^ West, but failed to extend their influence further eastward, so that in the United Provinces East the total rainfall of the period was in moderate defect. In January skies were more clouded than usual and humidity was in slight excess. The hot weather period, March to May ,—The weather during the period was almost dry except in the United Provinces West where the rainfall for May was in defect by 44 per cent., the total rainfall received in any of these months was less than one-fifth of the normal amount in both the sub-divisions. . Skies were less clouded than usual in March and humidity was in defect in all the three months. The maximum tempera¬ ture was higher than usual over the whole province in March and over the United Provinces East in April; it was below normal in the United Provinces West in May. The minimum was above normal in the eastern districts of. the division in March and April, but was below it over the whole province in May. The monsoon period, June to September.—-The monsoon was usually weak in June and did not reach the east of the province till the 20th. It extended up the Gangetic plain to the western districts by about the end of the month, hence the total rainfall of the month was in defect by 0](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3140487x_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
