'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1902-1903' [‎53r] (99/106)

SANITATION—VACCINATION—VTTERINAUY.
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6. Sanitation.
75 Chap. VI.
VITAL STATIS
TICS AND MEDI
CAL BELIEF.
1 An ao-cn-ecate sum of Rs. 2,35,770 was expended by the District and Tfluka Local
Boards upon water-supply and drainage as against Rs. 1,16,172 in the preceding year, the in
crease being shared by each Division m 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 Smd.
2 The total expenditure during the year of District Municipalities 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 upon sanitation, including conservancy, water-supply and drainage, amounted to
District Boards.
District
Municipalities.
Hs 15 90 638 as against Rs. 14,22,475. The chief variations from the previous year’s figures
under the'head of conservancy occurred in the Central Division, where there was an increase of
Rs 14 716 distributed over all the Districts with the exception of N£sik, andm the Hyderabad
District where the increase amounted to Rs. 13,929 on account of famine and plague measures.
There were no important fluctuations in the expenditure on water-supply in the Southern Divi
sion and Sind but there was an increase of Rs. 13,641 in the Northern Division, ma.mly con
tributed by Surat and Ahmedabad, and in the Central Division of Rs. 3,108, partly due to the
improvement of tanks and wells in the Poona and SaUra Districts. The outlay on drainage
showed no material variation in the Southern Division and Sind, but increased by Rs. 9, o4
in the Central Division, mainly owing to the expenditure incurred by the Poona City Munici
pality on the experimental farm at Manjri, and by Rs. 1,28,186 in the Northern Division.
To this large increase Ahmedabad alone contributed Rs. 1,28,715 onjiccount of charges m
connection with its drainage extension scheme.
3. The Bombay Village Sanitation Act of 1889 had been introduced into 294 villages,
there being an increase of 2 only in the year under report owing to the prevalence of famine
and plague. The number of selected villages in which the Village Sanitary Inspection Book had
been introduced stood at 3,395 ; in about 1,518 of these villages the book had been written up
by the officers of the Sanitary Department.
4. The total expenditure of the Health Department of the City of Bombay was
Rs. 19,91,233 against Rs. 19,87,053 for the previous year. Deducting receipts, the net expendi
ture amounted to Rs. 10,92,304.
5 . The number of vessels in Bombay harbour examined by the Health Officer during the
year was 15,432 with 701,964 crew and passengers, as compared with the previous year’s
figures of 34,637 and 886,310 respectively. The reduction in the numbers was due to the
exemption from medical inspection of certain vessels plying between the port of Bombay and
the ports on the main land between Thdna creek in the north and Nagothna and Roha in the
south. At the inspection 44 cases of plague, 106 of measles, 67 of chicken-pox, 30 of jigger
and 11 of small-pox were detected.
6 . Bombay was opened as a port of departure for pilgrims from 5th November 1902 and
disinfection camps were erected at Pir Pdo. The number of pilgrims disinfected was^ 1,221,
besides whom 83 were received from the provincial camp at Peshawar, making a total of l,o04 pil
grims who passed through the camps. The number of pilgrims returning to Bombay from
Mecca via Aden and other routes rose from 1,290 to 3,570. Among these one case of small
pox was discovered.
7. Vaccination.
Village sanitation.
Bombay
Municipality.
Inspection of vessels
in Bombay harbour.
Pilgrim traffic.
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For details vide xippendices to the Annual Report on Vaccination for 1902 and Tables under XVI.—Vaccination
appended to the Judicial and Administrative (statistics for British India for 1902-1903.
1. In British districts and Native States under the supervision of the Sanitary Department General.
536,989 persons were primarily vaccinated and 41,136 re-vaccinated against 470,517 and
50,471 respectively in the previous year. The total operations show a net increase of
57^137.
2. Out of the 536,989 primary vaccinations, 499,660 or 93 per cent, were successful as Primary vaccination,
against 92 per cent, in 1901-1902. The number of infants successfully vaccinated was 364,513
against 287,388, giving a percentage of 71*85 out of the available children.
3. The sex percentages in primary vaccinations were respectively 51*39 males and 48*61 Primary vaccination
females. During the year 4,121 Christians, 400,628 Hindus, 92,941 Musalmans, 1,561 Parsis by sex and race,
and 37,738 persons of other castes were primarily vaccinated.
4. Re-vaccinations numbered 41,136, of which 55*73 per cent, were successful. The Re-vaccination,
operation failed in 4,773 cases. Excluding “ unknown cases ”, the percentage of success worked
out to 82*78. Of the number re-vaccinated 74*95 per cent, were males.
5. The expenditure amounted to Rs. 2,84,488, an increase of Rs. 13,747 over the previous Expenditure,
year. The average cost per each successful case was 8 annas 9 pies as against 9 annas 4 pies
in 1901-1902.
8. Veterinary.
1 . 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. proper, cattle disease was reported from 9 districts, including Bombay Cattle disease.
City. The number of attacks rose from 739 to 2,488 and the mortality from 25 per cent, to
27 per cent, of the attacks; two-thirds of the cases were of foot and mouth disease. In Sind,
498 attacks were reported from two districts and 53 per cent, of them proved fatal.