'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1907-1908' [‎65v] (129/137)

Chap. VI.
VITAL STATIS-.
TICS ANLMJPP 1
CAL RELIES.
District
Municipalities.
Pilgrim traffic.
General.
Primary
vaccination,
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5 . Sanitation.
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Local hoards.
Village Sanitation.
Inspection of vessels
in Bombay.
Tbere «. M *
total net iECome amounted to Es. ^ j > conservancy within their limits. The folln
iinproTemeiit of water-supply, ision 0 f the Sanitary Board for the Presidency’!” 8
works were in P r °g lef ® un , ; I ,„. 1 „ r 11]tir ovemerts to Jal<>aon water-supply Dhuli a IJu"
Karachi diainage, Pandharpur drainage lu p" 1 ^ 6cheme for s «J t '
Bed Plans a nd est lm a es were nn e prepa D aUo^« Hub lbffiedna „ arj Hyderabad ^
supply schemes for the following places, ra bo]ia . as htaini and Sukkur. Gove.!, k '
n-. B— » ». Ss;
of sanitary works.
2 There were 25 District and 211 Taluka Local Boards. Out of an income amou nt i D( ,
to Ks.63,58,510 a sum of Ks. 3,07,779 was expended on water-supply and drainage.
3 The Village Sanitation Act has been introduced into 243 villages against 239 up f> o
the end of last year. Village Sanitary Inspection Books have been introduced into 3,434
villages, and 462 of them were written up by officers of the Sanitary Department during th e
year.
4 11 708 vessels, with crews and passengers numbering 894 848 were inspected. The
clothing and bedding of 92,151 persons were disinfected. 00 vessels including 35 on which
ca^es of infectious diseases had occurred, were disinfected. At the outward and inward
inspections and on vessels lying in the harbour or docks, 19 cases ot plague, 9 cases of cholera
33 cases of’small-pox, 34 cases of measles, 28 cases of chicken-pox, 14 cases of jigger, 1 eag ;
of scarlatina, and 3 casss of leprosy were detected.
5. Vessels for the pilgrim traffic were cleansed and freed from rats under the personal
direction of the Port Health Officer. The pilgrims were subjected to medical inspection and
their clothing and bedding to thorongh disinfection before they were allowed to embark. The
number of pilgrims was 21,867, less than last year by 5,338, but still above the average;
24,293 of last year's pilgrims returned from Mecca, in 33 vessels. There was no case of pl a S U e
among those leaving for Mecca, but among those returning there were 2 ;cases of plague
(landed at Aden) and 11 cases of other infectious diseases.
b. Vaccination.
, For details see Report on Vaccination 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. for the year 1907-1908 and tables under
Vaccination, printed in Part V of the Statistics of British India.
There were 5,95,883 persons primarily vaccinated, and 40,954 re-vaccinated, compared
1,G7 7 and 37,507 respectively in the previous year, showing increases of *71 per cent.
1.
with 591,v,,, iccjjc^tivojy m tuc jjicviuus year, snowing increases ot ‘Viper
in the case of primary vaccination and of 9 19 per cent, in the case of re-vaccination/ Out of
54,101 villages 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. 44,869 were visited by vaccinators.
2 Out of the total of 595,883 primary vaccinations 532,755 or 89-41 per cent, were
successful. In 46,164 cases the result was unknown. If these be excluded the percentage of
succgssiui cases comes to yo*c/f
Rc-vaccination. 3. The number of successful cases was 22,335, or 54*5 per cent.
Terrho r y!eSe e rtsindi V w!nv P nL h , haS b r ff eraI U6e throughout Brit
tion. « y “ ce Pt‘-ii>d;., has given fairly good results. In the Western and Gujarat Reght
force on a small scale.™* 1 ^ " aS USed ' In ° ther d,stricts cal£ -to-arm vaccination was
^heUXt^l—i^ 2 ’- 98 ’ 941 ’/ de, ? ea6e of although expends
! “ .w T al n has . lncreased - ' lhe decreas e under that head is die to t
Expenditure. 5.
under all
difference in thenav u- J ne ? ei : rease ™<ler that head is due to t
Ivmph from the Vaccine T)»^ Aj '"‘p 1 f' 8 aD1 t a '7 Commissioners and to the expenses of procuri
flom Loeal Punds p0t ’ BelgaUm ’ bei ^ e “ luded - expense is now in
Cattle di £ cases.
7- Veterinary.
For details *** Annual Report of the Civil Veterinary department 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. for 1907-1908,
135 equines and 22 084 rf C * e ^J ls con f a g'ious diseases, the figures l
for 19,413 deaths against 25 416^ It w ^ last y €ar ’ Rinderpest was respou
most severe in K6nara The # preva 1 lent m ever y district 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.
the percentage of deaths amono* f anim f ls inoculated fell from 39,992 to 26,558
Among other diseases Anthrax npr* a ‘ S o? shows an improven
Hagic Septicaemia for 1 464 of which ^ 01 deaths; Black Quarter for 866;
J 4 , ° ±Tvblch ^ were m Kaira; Poot and Mouth Dhease fo