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‘REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1919-20’ [315v] (178/192)
The record is made up of 1 item (95 folios). It was created in 1921. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Expenditure.
Bombay City.
Karachi City.
146
BOMBAY ADMINISTRATION REPORT.
[1919-1920.
Chapter VI.
VITAL STATI
CAL RELIEF. out-patients were malaria, diseases of the eye and diseases of the digestive
system.
Surgical operations. 5. The number of surgical operations fell from 97,607 to 96,359. Asa
result of the operations 93,779 persons were cured and 1,041 relieved.
6 . The total income, exclusive of the opening cash balance, amounted
to Es. 33,77,712. Of this, Es. 16,99,933 were contributed by Government
Es. 3,35,118 by local funds and Es. 6,48,948 by municipal funds. Subscriptions
increased from Es. 1,01,666 to Es. 1,28,277. The several nursing associations
contributed Es. 1,54,637.
7. The total expenditure rose from Es. 31,09,815 to Es. 35,45,263. Deduct
ing Es. 2,19,645 remitted into the treasury on account of hospital fees, sale-
proceeds of unserviceable articles, etc., and Es. 24,300 invested during the
year, the net cost rose from Es. 28,55,937 to Es. 33,01,318.
8 . The invested capital stood at Es. 10,47,047 at the beginning and
Es. 10,63,347 at the end of the year.
4.—Epidemic Diseases.
1 . -—Plague.
1 . The incidence of plague was less during the year under report
than in any year since 1900. The greatest number recorded in any previous
year was 281,269 in 1903 whilst during the year 1919 deaths from plague 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.
(including Aden and all Native States except Baroda) fell from
103,950 in the previous year to 12,706.
2. Plague was reported from Bombay City throughout the year, and the
number of deaths totalled 697 against 1,133 in 1918, the maximum (255) being
reached in the month of April.
3. In Karachi plague deaths were reported throughout the year, the
number of deaths totalling 372 against 1,369 in 1918. The largest number
occurred during May.
4. Aden was quite free from plague during the year.
5. All the districts with the exception of the Panch Mahals, Thar
Parkar and Upper Sind Frontier, reported deaths, the most severely affected
being Dharwar, West Khandesh and Satara. The Agencies and States in
which the epidemic was severest were Kolhapur State and Kathiawar
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
.
6 . Among Europeans and Anglo-Indians, there were 4 deaths from
plague all of which occurred in Bombay City.
7. During the year only two temporary assistant surgeons were engaged
specially in inoculation work, while the medical officers in charge of hospitals
and dispensaries and private medical practitioners and others, helped in the
operations. Twenty-eight thousand three hundred and seven inoculations
were performed against 86,571 in the previous year. Of this number 2,787
were done in Bombay City, 685 in Karachi City, 9,632 in Dharwar, 6,034 in
West Khandesh, 1,642 in Bijapur, 1,605 in Ahmednagar and 1,325 in Poona
District. In the Native States 1,630 inoculations were reported as against
16,117 in the previous year.
2 . —Cholera.
The epidemic was wide spread and the mortality, in most parts, the
heaviest in any year of the last 20 .
During the calendar year 1919 there were 51,551 deaths recorded as ^ ue ^°
cholera, against 8,834 in 1918. The districts that suffered most were Kola a
(8,187), Thana (6,465), Nasik (4,025), Poona (3,757), Ahmednagar (3,755,
Surat (2,607), West Khandesh ( 2 , 575 ), Satara ( 2 , 345 ), Eatnagin (2,255j,
Sholapur (1,977), and East Khandesh (1,857). Bombay City recorded o,
deaths of which 8,171 occurred in January and February. The epidemic reac
ed its height in July during which month 13,111 deaths were recorded. lk e
was a lull towards the end of the year.
Districts and Agen-
..cies.
Europeans and
Anglo-Indians.
Inoculation.
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Annual administration report of 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. , providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of 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. during the financial year 1919-20. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai], in 1921.
The report is divided into two parts. Part I comprises a report ‘GENERAL SUMMARY’ (ff 231-238).
PART II (ff 239-322) comprises the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:
- ‘CHAPTER I. – PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL. TRIBUTARY STATES.’ (ff 239-249), consisting of: I. North Gujarat; II. South Gujarat; III. North Konkan; IV. South Konkan; V. The Deccan; VI. Kolhapur and Southern Maratha Country States; VII. Sind [Sindh]; VIII. Aden; IX. Condition of the People
- ‘CHAPTER II. – ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND.’ (ff 250-256), consisting of: 1. Surveys; 2. Settlements; 3. Waste Lands; 4. Land Records; 5. Wards’ and other Estates; 6. Revenue and Rent-paying Classes
- ‘CHAPTER III. – PROTECTION.’ (ff 256-269), consisting of: 1. Course of Legislation; 2. Police; 3. Wild Animals and Venomous Snakes; 4. Chemical Analysis; 5. Criminal Justice; 6. Prisons – Civil and Criminal; 7. Civil Justice; 8. Criminal Tribes; 9. Registration; 10. Local Board Administration; 11. Municipal Administration; 12. Rent Acts; 13. Indian Reforms Scheme; 14. Military (Indian Defence Force); 15. Marine
- ‘CHAPTER IV. – PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.’ (ff 270-304), consisting of: 1. Agriculture; 2. Weather and Crops; 3. Co-operative Societies; 4. Horticulture; 5. Forests; 6. Mines and Quarries; 7. Power Industries and Handicrafts; 8. Trade; 9. Public Works; 10. Railways; 11. Tramways
- ‘CHAPTER V. – FINANCIAL REVIEW.’ (ff 305-314), consisting of: 1. Financial Review, 1919-20; 2. Land Revenue; 3. Irrigation Revenue; 4. Public Works Revenue; 5. Customs; 6. Salt; 7. Excise; 8. Cotton Duties Act; 9. Stamps; 10. Income Tax; 11. Local Funds
- ‘CHAPTER VI. – VITAL STATISTICS AND MEDICAL RELIEF.’ (ff 314-318), consisting of: 1. Births and Deaths; 2. Emigration and Immigration; 3. Medical Relief; 4. Epidemic Diseases; 5. The Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory; 6. Lunatic Asylums [psychiatric hospitals]; 7. Acworth Leper Asylum [hospital for people affected by leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease], Matunga; 8. Sanitation; 9. Vaccination; 10. Veterinary
- ‘CHAPTER VII. – INSTRUCTION.’ (ff 318-320), consisting of: 1. Education; 2. Literature and the Press; 3. Arts and Sciences
- ‘CHAPTER VIII. – ARCHEAOLOGY.’ (f 321), consisting of: Archaeological Survey of India, Western Circle
- ‘CHAPTER IX. – MISCELLANEOUS.’ (ff 321-322), consisting of: 1. Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; 2. Stationary; 3. Printing; 4. General Miscellaneous.
There is a map of 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. on folio 229. The report also includes the following photographs:
- ‘RESIDENCY SCHOOL. Crater, Aden.’ (f 292)
- ‘POST AND TELEGRAPH OFFICE SHOLAPUR [Solapur].’ (f 243)
- ‘HOSTEL BUILDING FOR THE NORTHCOTE HIGH SCHOOL SHOLAPUR.’ (f 245)
- ‘BUNGALOW FOR THE SANITARY ENGINEER TO GOVERNMENT, YERAVDA [Yerwada or Yerawada]. (North West Elevation).’ (297).
A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folio 230. In a small number of instances, there are discrepancies in the spelling, phrasing or inclusion of sub-headings between the table of contents and the body of the report. In these cases, the sub-heading as it appears in the body of the report is included above.
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