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'ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1862-63’ [95v] (186/266)
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.
Hospital Statistics.
^Bombay]
Ratio per-cent of treated to strength
Ditto deaths to treated .....
Ditto do. to strength
Ditto do. from cholera .. .
Ditto do. ordinary diseases
Admissions from zymotic diseases
Ditto constitutional diseases...
Ditto local diseases
Developmental diseases ..
Violent deaths
Epidemic cholera
Total admissions into Hospital
1861.
1862 .
222 , 0
145-2
2-0
5-1
4 , 6
8-0
4'6
■8-0
....
” 9-0
....
5-0
,385-0
273-0
Although the proportion of admissions to strength is more favourable than during
the previous year, still the rates of mortality bear a very discouraging comparison,
especially in the absence of epidemic disease of any kind. The cause of the enhanced
rates is not specially alluded to by the Civil Surgeon, probably to the Jail having been
on several occasions over-crowded.
Clothing.
14. The new scale of clothing is in force, and promises to
answer well.
15. The old diet scale was in use, but has since the close of the year been replaced
by the new scale. The new plan of cooking is reported to act
admirably.
Diet.
Conservancy.
16. Improved.
SATTARA.
This Jail was inspected carefully and frequently in the months of June and July
1862. The buildings are new, and a brief notice of the old and
Inspection. new prisons may not be altogether without its use.
2. I he old Jail was situated within the town, and presented few of the characteris
tics of a prison. The internal arrangements were sadly defective. The cells were low,
dark, and ill-ventilated. Chunam urinaries, used also for defocation at night, existed
in every ward. Open drains for the reception of this filth bordered each cell and passed
below the floors of several of them. Such a system of conservancy was dangerous and
offensive in the extreme; yet this Jail with all its imperfections maintained for many years
a justly high reputation for remarkable healthiness.
o. In 1858, however, the charm was dispelled. Fever of a typhoid type appeared
and proved extremely fatal, lire Jail was emptied, and the prisoners removed to the fort
but still the disease did not desert them; it raged with severity and carried off numerous
victims in the mountain air at an elevation of 900 feet above the city and of 3,123 abov<
the sea.
58
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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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