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'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1914-1915' [234r] (137/150)
The record is made up of 1 item (75 folios). It was created in 1915. 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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CHAPTER VI.
VITAL STATISTICS AND MEDICAL RELIEF'.
1 .—Births and Deaths.
tor details see the Annual Report of the Sanitary Commissioner for the Government
of Bombay for 1914, with appendices.
• £ 'f o ^! 110n # Uie Eur0pean a '’ il P°P ula tion, 288 births and 280 deaths were recorded as Europeans,
against 354 and 273 in 1913, giving a birth-rate of 9-54 ^er mille as against 9-43 in 1914
and a death-rate of 9-27 as against 9-42. J J
2. Among Anglo-Indians 1 73 births were registered as against (93 in 1914, and
deaths as against 124 corresponding to a birth-ratio of 19-44
1913, and a death-ratio of 17-08 as against 13-93.
3. Among Indians the births registered numbered 733,076, showing an increase of Indians.
48,273 on last year s figures, the birth-rate being 37-43 per mille as against 34-96 per mille in
the previous year. For every !00 females, 107-29 males were born. Still-births^ numbered
10,034 as against 9,753 in the previous year. Five hundred and seventy-seven thousand five
hundred and tour deaths were registered, an increase of 55,965 on the figure for 1914 • io7-4s
ma es died or every 100 females. The death-rate was 29-48 per mille compared with 26-64
in the previous year The birth-rate exceeded the death-rate by 7-95 per mille. In Bombay
Citv the birth and death rates were 20-10 and 32-70 respectively. The infant mortality
rate was 193-81 per thousand live births against 188-42 in 191 3 : in Bombay the rate was
3 5 i as against 38454 in 1913- Fhe death-rate was lowest (7-26) among males between
the ages of 10 and 15 and among females (9-13) between the same age period. The death-
rate among Christians was 19-58 per mille, among Mahornedans 20-38, amono- Parsis
20-29, among Jains 23-01 and among Hindus 32-07.
4. As regards the deaths among Indians which totalled 577,504, cholera was responsible Causes of death,
or 17 ) 779 ) small-pox lot plague iox: 20,060, fevers for 259,164, dysentery and diarrhoea
lor 42,961 and respiratory diseases for 65,941. There was an appreciable decrease in the
mortality from both small-pox and plague ; deaths from cholera and intestinal diseases show-
a marked increase.
Flie subjoined table shows the deaths in 1914 arranged according to causes contrasted
with the results for 1913, and with the mean of preceeding five years.
Mean for five years,
1909—1913.
1914.
j Ratio per
Number. | 1,000 of
j population.
Number.
Ratio per
1..000 of
(population.
Cholera
Small-pox
Plague
Fever
Dysentery and diarrhoea
Respiratory diseases
Injuries
Other causes
All causes
2 i ,573
6,102
40,797
248,616
40,858
58,983
7,250
141,012
112
■ 32
211
12-99
2'14
3-08
•38
737
1 7,779
4,209
20,060
259,164
42,961
65,941
7,670
159,720
•91
21
102
132 3
2-19
3‘37
'39
8-15
Number
5 D 34
9,833
25,288
246,319
34,021
59 , 4 i 8
7 , 7 U
•133,815
Ratio per
1,000 of
population.
2 .—Emigration and Immigration.
bor details see Fables under Emigration printed in Part V of the Statistics of British India.
1. Bombay as usual attracted a large number of labourers from the Deccan and the Movements by land,
urat, Kolaba and Ratnagiri districts. Other centres of attraction for labour were the cotton
picMng areas of the Broach district and Baroda territory, the railway works in Thana, the
andardara Dam works in Ahmednagar and the Tata works at Lonavla in the Poona
is net. phe injury inflicted on the weaving industry by the war caused a considerable exodus
0 weavers from the Thana, Ahmednagar, East Khandesh and Nasik districts,--chiefly to
ombay. There were the usual movements of labourers at harvest time.
. 2 - p h e nu niber of emigrants leaving the port of Bombay under the Indian Emigration Movements by sea.
. 5 . Was 3 I 5 as compared with 258 in the preceding year. Of these 196 went to East
nca and 103 to Persia for employment under the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
H 1314—26
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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 1914-15.
The report is divided into two parts. Part I contains a report ‘SUMMARY’ (ff 169-178). Part II (ff 179-308) comprises chapters I-IX.
Part II is divided into the following chapters, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:
- ‘CHAPTER I. TRIBUTARY STATES’ (ff 179-186), consisting of: North Gujarat; South Gujarat; North Konkan, Nasik and Khandesh; South Konkan; Deccan; Kolhapur, Southern Maratha Country States and Dharwar; Sind [Sindh]; Aden; Condition of the People
- ‘CHAPTER II. ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND’ (ff 187-190), consisting of: Survey; Settlements Proper; Waste lands; Wards and other Estates under management of Government
- ‘CHAPTER III. PROTECTION’ (ff 191-198), consisting of: Legislative Authority; Course of Legislation; Police; Wild animals and venomous snakes; Chemical Analysis; Criminal Justice; Prisons – Civil and Criminal; Civil Justice; Registration; Local Boards’ Administration; Municipal Administration; Military (Volunteering); Marine; Cooperative Credit Societies
- ‘CHAPTER IV. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION’ (ff 199-226), consisting of: Power Industries and Handicrafts; Agriculture; Weather and crops; Horticulture; Forests; Mines and Quarries; Manufactures and Industries; Trade; Public Works; Irrigation; Railways; Tramways.
- ‘CHAPTER V. FINANCIAL REVIEW’ (ff 227-233), consisting of: General Finance; Mint; Currency; Land Revenue; Irrigation Revenue; Public Works Revenue; Sea Customs; Land Customs; Opium; Salt, Excise; Cotton Duties; Stamps; Income Tax; Forests; Local Funds; Municipal Revenues
- ‘CHAPTER VI. VITAL STATISTICS’ (ff 234-236), consisting of: Births and Deaths; Emigration and Immigration; Medical Relief; Lunatic Asylums [psychiatric hospitals]; Sanitation; Vaccination; Veterinary
- ‘CHAPTER VII. INSTRUCTION’ (ff 237-238), consisting of: General System of Public Instruction; Education; Literature and the Press; Literary Societies; Arts and Sciences
- ‘CHAPTER VIII. ARCHAEOLOGY’ (f 239), consisting of: Archaeological Survey Party of West India
- ‘CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS’ (f 239v), consisting of: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; Established Church of England; Established Church of Scotland; Stationery; General Miscellaneous.
A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folio 168. In a small number of instances there are discrepancies in the spelling, phrasing or inclusion 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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