‘REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1919-20’ [‎315r] (177/192)

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EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION MEDICAL RELIEF.
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local board and municipal work in the districts of Broach and Surat. The
latter district also received similar assistance from Marwar. The* usual
number of labourers were employed in the Kopergaon taluka of the Ahmed-
nagar district on the sugarcane crop while the failure of rain in the Nasik
district drove a large number of labourers to East Khandesh district who
found ample work in gins and presses. The Tata and Bailway works in the
Maval taluka of the Poona district attracted about 10,000 people from Satara
Sholapur and Nagar districts. Labourers from Goa and Savantvadi went as
usual to Kanara in search of work. Kachhis emigrated in a smaller number
to Karachi on account of good rains in Cutch and floods in Sind. Pathans and
Brahuis as usual went to some parts of Larkana district in the winter season
for agricultural and other labour. Bombay and other industrial centres
received a large immigration of labourers from Ahmednagar, Poona, Satara,
Kanara, Kolaba and Ratnagiri. Some 3,000 people, mostly Mahars and Kolis’,
emigrated from Dindori taluka of the Nasik district to Bombay to work in the
mills as they were attracted by the high wages obtained there. Some Mara-
thas left Kanara for Mysore State, where waste lands were offered on favourable
terms. With a view to check this emigration steps have been taken to grant
lands on most favourable terms. Larkana, Sukkur, Upper Sind Frontier and
Nawabshah districts were responsible for emigration on account of the hijrat
movement in consequence of the Khilafat agitation. In Thar Parkar Tharis,
who had left the previous year, returned owing to favourable conditions. From
Nawabshab some of the agriculturists and labouring classes migrated tempora
rily to Mir’s territory in search of work.
Chapter VI.
VITAL STATIS
TICS AND MEDI
CAL RELIEF.
2. Anand, Borsad, Broach, Ankleshwar, Surat and Kolaba were responsible Movements by sea.
for migration to South Africa and other foreign parts to a small extent. The
flow of labour to Basra from the Karachi district continued on a smaller scale.
The number of emigrants leaving the port of Bombay by sea under the Indian
Emigration Act XYII of 1908 fell from 237 to 76, of whom 54 were engaged
for the British Protectorate in Africa and 7 were engaged by Messrs.
Mackinon Mackenzie & Co. for Uganda Railway. The number of emigrants
who returned to Bombay was 246, of whom 227 came from British East
Africa. This number included 211 persons registered at Karachi. From
Karachi 145 persons went for work on the Uganda Railway. The operation
of chapter XI of the Act has been suspended since 1918 in the case of artisans
required by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. The number returning from
Persia was 121.
3.—Medical Relief.
For details see the Annual Report on the Civil Hospitals and Dispensaries under 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 the
year 1919 and the tables under Hospitals printed in Part V of the Statistics of British India.
L The total number of institutions rose during the year from 740 to 755. Number of institu-
The classification of existing institutions was as follows :—State (public) 52 ; tl011S •
State (special) 26; Local and Municipal Funds 310; Private (aided) 17; Private
(unaided) 295; and Railways 55.
2. The total number of patients treated increased from 2,584,249 to Number of patients.
2,392,259. In-patients, of whom 49,379 were cured and 7,780 died, numbered
75,045 as against 73,132, the percentage of mortality decreasing from 12*5 to
10 36. The total number of beds available rose from 6,680 to 6,823, while the
daily average of patients occupying them decreased from 3,841'7 to 3,667*6.
Out-patients decreased in number from 2,511,117 to 2,317,214 and the daily
average attendance from 23,220*2 to 22,348*0.
3. Of the total number of patients treated, 17,671 were Europeans and Attendance by class
Anglo-Indians, 1,527,496 Hindus, 719,634 Mahomedans and 127,458 others.
4. Amongst in-door patients the chief increases were in the figures for cholera, Diseases,
ysentery, malaria, tubercle of the lung, other tubercular diseases and injuries,
white leprosy, small-pox and labour cases showed a substantial decrease. The
number of malaria cases treated as out-door patients increased from 403,596 to
qWu * 1^02 persons treated for small-pox, 694 were unvaccinated,
bnd been vaccinated in infancy, 14 in later life and 5 re-yaccinated, the
^accmal condition being unknown in 44 cases. The chief diseases among