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'ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1862-63’ [81r] (157/266)
The record is made up of 1 item (144 folios). It was created in 29 Aug 1863-27 Jul 1865. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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APPENDIX TO JUDICIAL REPOPwT.
The cases of diarrhoea, dysentery, and cholera amount to almost one-half of those of all
other diseases treated during the year, and the deaths to more than double of those
from all other causes. The percentage of deaths to strength reached the unprecedentedly
high figures of 27 - 8.
126. This .Tail labours under many disadvantages : it is intersected by a labyrinth
of under-ground drains for carrying off into the river Taptee the whole filth of the Jail;
these are almost at all times abominably offensive, and, in spite of every attention to
cleanliness, pregnant with the seeds of disease. The water too is more or less brackish
and impregnated with nitratis. The only radical remedy is temporarily to abandon
the Jail, encamp the prisoners outside the walls after the rains, and completely eradicate
every trace of these filthy drains, and fill in the excavations with fresh gravel, which
could be procured at no great distance. The whole of this work could be performed
by the prisoners. The water—the best procurable in the vicinity of the Jail—should be
boiled, and then filtered through charcoal and sand for all cooking and drinking
purposes.
127. Even although a central prison in Gujarat be constructed, it will, I consider,
be necessary to retain a Jail at Surat to carry out sentences of short imprisonment.
It therefore becomes a matter of importance that all practicable sanitary reforms should
be carried out as soon as possible, and I have no doubt that those above recommended
will result in that complete success, as far as purely local influences are concerned,
which may justly be anticipated.
128. It is not, however, entirely owing to the grave sanitary defects in this Jail
that the mortality is to be attributed, for by far the greater number of deaths occurred
among the prisoners transferred from the Broach zilla. To these, for reasons as yet not
satisfactorily explained, confinement in this Jail has been lamentably fatal.
129. In the following table is included only
Jails in which the mortality was below one of the JaiIs hoge morta li ty was be l ow * ix per _
six per-cent and also below the average J \
of the preeeding nine years. ‘ cent and also below the average of the preceding-
nine years:—
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Ordinary Dis-
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In Mortality
by Cholera.
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130. It will be seen that the decrease, as contrasted with the average of the
preceding nine years, was exactly one-half.
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Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. , providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. during the financial year 1862-63.
The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:
- ‘JUDICIAL’ (ff 6-15), consisting of: Legislative; Civil Justice; Criminal Justice; Police; Jails
- ‘FINANCE AND REVENUE’ (ff 16-25), consisting of: Finance; The Mint; Revenue; Cash Alienations; Land Alienations; Sayer (Income Tax, Stamps, &c.); Customs; Imports; Import Revenue; Export Revenue; Frontier Duties; General Trade; Opium; Salt Excise; Financial and Commercial Legislation
- ‘POLITICAL’ (ff 26-35), consisting of: Sattara [Satara]; Kolhapore [Kolhapur]; The Southern Maratha Country; Cutch [Kachchh]; Rewa Kanta [Rewa Kantha] and Punch Mahals [Panch Mahals]; Guzerat [Gujarat]; Aden; Savanoor [Savanur]; Surat; Mahee Kanta [Mahi Kantha]; Edur [Idar]; Cambay [Khambhat]; Kattywar [Kathiawar]; Sind [Sindh]; Pahlunpoor [Palanpur]; Junjeera [Janjira]
- ‘PUBLIC WORKS’ (ff 36-39), consisting of: Sattara; Bombay [Mumbai] Harbour Defences; Belgaum and Kolapoor [Kolhapur]; Poona [Pune] Districts; The Civil Architect; Dharwar [Dharwad]; Ahmedabad and Kaira [Kheda]; Northern Concan [Konkan]; Mhow; Poona Cantonment; Kirkee [Khadki] Cantonment; Nassick [Nashik] Districts; Agra Road, Beaora [Biaora] Division; The Garrison and Dockyard Engineer, Bombay; Agra Road, Mhow Division; Sholapore [Solapur]; Ahmednuggur [Ahmednagar]; Surat and Broach [Bharuch]
- ‘PUBLIC WORKS, RAILWAY’ (ff 40-43), consisting of: Railway Operations; Bombay, Baroda [Vadodara], and Central India Railway; The Sind Railway; Indus Steam Flotilla
- ‘MILITARY DEPARTMENT’ (f 44), consisting of: Military Department; Marine Department
- ‘EDUCATION’ (ff 45-46)
- ‘THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT’ (f 47)
- ‘CONSERVANCY AND MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION’ (ff 48-50), consisting of: Bombay; Revenue Survey
- ‘FORESTS’ (f 51)
- ‘MISCELLANEOUS’ (f 52).
The remainder of the item consists of appendices to the ‘JUDICIAL’ section of the report. Appendices A and B (f 53) contain lists of Acts passed, respectively, by the Government of India and the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. . Appendix C (ff 53-64) contains a list of bills under consideration by the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. . Appendix D (ff 65-146) consists of a detailed report on jails by the Inspector-General of Prisons. Appendix D is dated 29 August 1863 and contains an inserted sheet of corrections (f 66) dated 27 July 1865. A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folio 5. In a small number of instances there are discrepancies in the spelling or phrasing of sub-headings between the table of contents and the body of the report. In these cases the sub-heading as it appears in the body of the report is included above.
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