'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR, 1910-1911' [‎278v] (140/150)

CHAPTER TL—VITAL STATISTICS AND MEDICAL RELIgp
Europeans.
Eurasians,
Natives.
Causes of deaths.
Movement by land.
Movement by sea.
I. Births and Deaths.
r 11 C rnmmissioner for 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. for iqi 0 wifh „
For details see Annual Report of the an 7 y f th Statistics of British India. ’ PP e ndice s
and tables under Vital Statistics printed in Bart V or
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Among the European civil population, 394 births and 349 deaths were recorded
I9I0 , against 326 and tgo" respectively . Jh e btrth-rate was 2 o- 95 per m ilU agai
17-34 in 1909 , and the death-rate was 18-55 against 10 10 .
2 Amonv Eurasians, 140 births and 196 deaths were registered during 1910 , ag a i nst
1,9 and' 103 respectively in 1909 , giving a birth-rate of 21-35 per mille against 2 i - 20 in g I909
and a death-rate of 29-89 against 15 - 71 .
o xhe census figures of 1901 show a native population of 18 , 481 , 362 . The births
registered number 689,701 or 37-32 per mille, ^ increase of 32,016 compared with the
previous year when the ratio was per mille. For every 100 female births there were
I07-Q0 males. The number recorded as still-born was 9i75«o r ^ per cent, o the total births,
The number of deaths increased by 54iC> 6 7 to 5 6 o ^ 0 °3i °f deaths amongst
males being 30-50 and amongst females 30-08 against 27-74 and 26-83 respectively in ig™
For every^i'oo deaths amongst females there were 107-94 amongst males. For the whole
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 birth-rate exceeded the death-rate by 7-02 per mille. In Bombay City the
birth and death rates were 20-47 and 35*97 respectively, against 2 o 39 an d 35-95 the
previous year. The ratio of infant mortality was 363-49 per 1,000 births among males and
318-48 amoncr females. The lowest death-rate was recorded among children between i 0 and
15 years of age,— 6-56 among males and 7-91 among females. Among the different classes of
the population the death-rate per mille for Mahomedans was 22 * 04 , for Hindus 32 - 51 , for
Jains 20 - 37 , for Christians 22 - 85 , and for Parsis 23 - 60 . In the case of every class except
HlnrhiQ and Parsis the death-rate shows " J fW
4 . Of the total number of 560,003 deaths or 30-30 per mille, fever was responsible
for 263,523 or 14-26 per mille; respiratory diseases for 59,880 or 3-24 per mille ; dysentery
for 46 , 643 'or 2-52 per mille ; plague for 25,043 or 1-35 per mille ; small-pox for 4,600 or -25
per mille; and cholera for 3,694 or -20 per mille. Injuries caused 6,885 deaths or - 377 ^
mille and other causes accounted for 149,735 deaths or 8-10 per mille. Deaths from cholera
showed a substantial and from small-pox a slight decrease compared with the previous
year. There was a slight increase on account of plague and a noticeable increase on account
of fever, respiratory diseases and dysentery.
2. Emigration and Immigration.
For details see tables under Emigration printed in Part V of the Statistics of British India.
1 . The season was normal and no movement of an unusual character took place. As in
previous years the great labour centres attracted many immigrants, the majority of whom left
their homes after the harvest and returned in time to till their fields before the monsoon.
Bombay and Karachi, Khandesh with its cotton crop and Poona with its sugarcane all drew
the customary influx of labourers. The completion of the rice harvest in the coast talukas sends
a large number of cultivators into the districts above-ghats ; and in the same way the comparative y
poor inhabitants of the western tracts in the ghat districts, after taking in their own hill ciops,
proceed to the richer talukas eastwards and to the great industrial centres to supplement t eir
profits with the earnings of day labour. As usual the fishing season in Kanara at trace
Mapillas for a couple of months from the Madras 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 scarcity in Cute an
Kathiawar caused an increase in the emigrants from these regions into the Karachi Distnc .
2 . The number of emigrants who left the port of Bombay under the Indian Emigrad^
Act was 232 compared with 78 in the previous year. Of these, 86 went as artizans to n
East Africa, 12 to German East Africa and 3 to British Central Africa, 108 w r ere engage ^
the Anglo-Persian Oil Company for service in Persia, and the remainder mostly had en &^
ments in shows in London, Germany and New York. Sixty-one of these emigrants cam .^ ran j. s
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. , 108 from the Punjab and 41 from Assam. ^• eturn ” 1 f 7 f em gg rv ice
numbered 118 against 537 in the preceding year. From Karachi 41 emigrants le^
ontheLganda Railway compared with 32 in the previous year, and 70 returned, to j. s
port. All but 3 of the emigrants came from the Punjab. Two hundred and thirty en^,^ 61 -
left Karachi for Mohammerah. In the Surat District there was a notable increase m 16 • ran ts
ot applicants for certificates of identity to go to America. Most of the intending e ^ na jj\e'
were cultivators and artizans, and few appeared to have any definite purpose or £ S
prospect of employment. About 1,000 persons left Surat for African and Africa-
eventy-six emigrants left Broach for places outside India and 68 left Kolaba for ou