'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1902-1903' [‎52v] (98/106)

BOMBAY ADMINISTRATION REPORT.
Chap. VI. 74
VITAL STATIS
TICS AND MEDI
CAL BELIEF.
2. Emigration.
[1902-190^
Port of Bombay. 1. Only 61 emigrants were sent from the port of Bombay under the Emigration Act em'
gration proper being still prohibited. Of these 61 jjersons, 32 went to Bulawayo as waiters a !l
14 to Chindi as artizans.
Port of Karachi. 2. The demand for Indian labour having ceased with the completion of the ITo'an]
Railway, only 172 emigrants left the port of Karachi during the year, while 7,117 return ]
1,040 Indian emigrants renewed their agreements. Deaths in East Africa numbered 169
Receipts on account of deceased emigrants amounted to Rs. 13,488 and disbursement b
Rs. 11,023. t0
3. Immigration.
Population.
Causes of insanity,
Receipts and
expenditure.
During the year there was practically no movement of people into the 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. beyond fl
ordinary influx of temporary labourers for the yearly harvests. The Outchis and Marwarb
who had invaded Sind in large numbers on account of the drought, nearly all returned to their
native places. A large number of inhabitants, who had sought work outside the district also
returned to Bijapur during the year. Over-population drove a great many Satara labourer to
Bombay to seek work in the mills and docks. Otherwise there were no migratory movements
worth recording.
4. Medical Relief.
Number of
institutions.
Number of patients
treated.
Diseases.
Surgical operations.
Attendance by class
and sex.
Receipts.
Expenditure.
Leper asylums.
For details vide Appendices to tbe Annual Report of the Civil Hospitals and Dispensaries for 1902, and also T 1
under XIV,—Hospitals appended to tbe Judicial and Administrative Statistics for British India for 1902-1903 ^
1. The total number of .institutions in the 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. and Sind increased from 627 to 638
Of these, 61 were State institutions, 237 Local Fund and Municipal, 294 Private, and 46 Railway
dispensaries. There were also 16 itinerant dispensaries. ^
2 . The total number of persons treated during the year was 4,031,185 against 4 300 556 in
1901 Of these, 67,377 were in-door patients as compared with 77,287 in-door patients m the
preceding year. The ratio per cent, of males and females treated was respectively 66*3 and 33*7
3. The decrease of 345,735 cases was mainly under the heads of dysentery, malarial fevers
ail other general diseases, respiratory affections, dyspepsia and diarrhoea. Admissions from
venereal diseases rose froni 104,394 to 111,552, of which an increase of 3,108 cases occurred in
Bombay City alone, chiefly owing to the inclusion for the first time of cases treated at the
unicipal Dispensaries for infectious diseases. The number of patients admitted into the
hospitals and subsequently found to be suffering from plague was 701, of whom 368 died and the
remainder were transferred to Plague Hospitals.
,W,4;<.;Z he !° tal ft?-Td er operations in Government-aided, Municipal and Local Fund
436 died 8 t., 8 n. Out ot 80,279 patients operated upon, 63,785 were cured and
5. The number of male and female adults and children treated at the Civil Hospitals and
Dispensaries totalled respectively ms 672 , 474 535 and 629 OfiO 1- i n j
!,399,669 and Musalmans 621,286. and b 2 j,.b 0 . Hindu patients numbered
6. The total income, exclusive of the cash balance, was Rs. 1 2,95 916 of which Rs 7 40 28?
U”dt'Zhs^^S 1 !, 8 - ! ; 84 ’" S fTOm Municipal Funds!
Rs. 76,032. 1 i ns an onations amounted to Rs. US,340 and hospital stoppages to
Rs. 9,97 036 and °Re ^’67,1/7 and thecostper patient Re. 0-9-0 as compared wit!
a^inst Re. 0-2 n rol 0 ; 0 re ®P eo ^7« n 1901 - The eost of each averaged Re. 0-2-7
62 percent, in ! 9 oi mmen pai - per cent, of tiie actual expenditure compared with
The six institutions for lepers in 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. treated in all !,065 cases.
5. Lunatic Asylums.
beginning of the vear ™522 .wi-c 1 ' 1 '! AZ ^ 1 ' 0 s P enc y an d Sind, there were 773 inmates at tbe
were transferred to their friends • and 73 died y in - g ^eyear; 86 were discharged cured; 339
The daily averao-e population was Sift • i ) ”07 m tile asylums at the end of the year,
during thyeaZHiX nu“bZd 2 S 9 ln M\ mg 4 09 a "™ 1 Of those admitted
The daily average of s iek Sm a tl w n J Mahomedans !25, and Europeans and Eurasians 89.
average population was iO 6 ‘ The P el «ge of lunatics cured to the daily
179. m cases were allegl^to^ave resultecffromov^'Z 1 ! 147 ^ pllysical in 521 and moiali “
r „ 3. The charges amounted to Rs \ 59 A 111 narc drinhug.
The net profit on wort done by inmates'Snk ^ 16 ' 588,