'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1904-1905' [‎117v] (10/116)

ly BOMBAY ADMINISTRATION REPOltT.
Native States*
The number of inoculations with plague prophylactic were as follow
during the year; only -4,289 inoculations were performed 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.
proper and Sind, and the total is swelled by the large number reported fro^
Aden:—
Aden
• • • •••
18,467
Bombay City
©•o •••
0 4 4
1,805
Karachi City
4 £ *> « « #
Si®
422
Poona City and Cantonment
4 ° a • « a
« • »
520
Dharw^r District
t * t * » •
£40
70
Bel gaum District
• 4 • • • •
t * ®
553
Kolh&pur and Southern Maratha Country ...
* 4 3
44
Ahmednagar District
... »••
• 4 9
93
Surat District
... • * »
» • 9
40
Kaira District
.9. •••
*44
406
Ahmedabad District
... * 9 *
9 9 9
207
Ratn&giri District
... •••
« a 4
129
making a total of 22,756.
5. There were few events of any importance during the year. An heir
was born to the Wadhwan State and the son of the late Haja Patangshah of
Jawkar installed on the gddi of that State. Two or three young Chiefs joined
the Imperial Cadet Corps. The staff of the Eajkumar College at Eajkot was
considerably strengthened in pursuance of His Excellency Lord Curzon’s
scheme for the improvement of Chiefs Colleges in India.
Conditions in Native States were for the most part very like those which
prevailed in the British districts to which they are most nearly adjacent,
Beginning with the Southern Maratha Country States they formed a descending
scale whose zero ^vas represented by the States in Kathiawar and Northern
Gujardt, Although the crops were nowhere good they were very fair in the
States at the top of the scale passing gradually through fair and poor to bad in
the northernmost parts of 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. On the whole the revenue
declined by about seven lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees . No relief works were opened, but where necessary,
the people were helped by tagavi advances and by remissions and suspensions
of revenue. Plague was much less virulent in the Southern Maratha Country
States and the death-rate fell considerably. In the other States, however,
where, in the preceding year, deaths from plague were not such a conspicuous
feature of the returns, the death-rate was very generally higher. The birth-rate
was somewhat higher in the majority of the Gujarat States and in the Southern
Maratha States, hut fell off slightly in the Konkan and Deccan States,
Education exhibited fair progress in practically every State and increasing
attention was paid to the medical requirements of the people. With the excep
tion of Kathiawar where the increase was more serious, there was a slight increase
in crime in the larger and more settled States due, no doubt, to poverty following
on scanty crops and high prices. In the more backward States crime for -the
most part decreased, a fact which seems to show that the wild tribes are gradually
settling down to peaceful cultivation. The work “of the Civil Courts did not
vary much from that of last year, and with the exception of Kathiawar and the
smaller Southern Maratha States there was hut little change in the number of
documents presented for registration. As a rule, the various States could attempt
but few original public works and such expenditure as could he incurred was
devoted almost entirely to repairs. Although the trade of the Kathiawar ports
improved especially in exports, the figures for Cutch show a decline under both
imports and exports. In Native States as in British districts the year was a dull
one and no active progress was possible.
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