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'ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1862-63’ [89r] (173/266)
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 REPORT.
14. During the year 243 prisoners have been treated in hospital. Of these 220
were discharged, 4 transferred, 8 died, and 11 remain under treatment. The principal
causes of disease and death were due to zymotic influences. The general health of the
prisoners is reported to have been good and remarkably free from Jail disease, such as
scurvy and atrophia. As to cholera, only one case occurred, although' the disease was
prevalent during portions of the year in the city of Poona and districts, and in this
solitary instance it is doubtful whether the disease was not imported into the Jail, as the
prisoner had but a few days before been received from Tanna :—
1862.
The average strength of prisoners was
238
Ratio
per-cent
of sick to strength
102-1
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3-2
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15. With regard to diet the Civil Surgeon reports that a change has since April
1862 taken place in the food, which is now in respect to cereals
varied, so as not to supply the same grain oftener than twice a
week. At the close of the year the new diet table had not been introduced, but has since
been in force.
16.
# “ The system of clothing introduced last year by the Inspector-General of
Prisons appears to answer well. The change is certainly an
improvement on the old plan, but its adoption requires greater
care and supervision on the part of the medicial officer in ascer
taining that each convict has really a sufficiency of warm cloth
ing during the monsoon and cold weather months.”
Clothing:.
* Annual Report by Civil
Surgeon.
17. In addition to 50 prisoners received on the 21st of July from the House of
Correction, a draft of 59 sickly prisoners were admitted into the
Transfers. Jail on the 5th of August. These no doubt have tended to
increase the rates of sickness and mortality. Of the 8 fatal cases 3 were from this draft.
Since the close of the year 102 sick prisoners have been received from the North Canara
convict gangs. Of these three have died ; the rest are totally useless and unproductive.
The subject will be further noticed in my next report.
18. bias been far from satisfactory during the year, but is
now much improved.
Conservancy.
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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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