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Annual Public Health Report of The Province of Bihar and Orissa for the Year 1924

1925

The provincial death rate rose to 29.1 as compared with 25.0 in the previous year and 34.1 the average of the last ten years whilst the birth-rate fell to 351 as compared with 37.0 in the previous year and 37.0 the average of the last ten years. [...] By the publication of these statistics it is hoped to keep the public informed of the actual state of health of the large towns and of the prevalence of epidemic diseases in the districts and to demonstrate the utility of vital statistics. [...] The infectious diseases the spread of which largely depends upon ovecrowding density of population and the consequent facilities for infection are consistently more prevalent in the towns whereas fevers of which ma?aria is the chief are more prevalent in the rural areas where the facilities are greater for the breeding of anopheline mosquitoes and where the economic condition of the peop [...] During the rains the epidemic abated somewhat in Tirnut but spread with greater rapidity in the Patna division In the end of August and in September there was a recrudescence of the epidemic in Champaran and Gaya and towards the end of September the epidemic rapidly died out. [...] The Assistant Directors of Public Health toured repeatedly in the cholera affected districts during the epidemic inspecting the work of the epidemic cadre and the epidemic reserve of vaccinators.
technology medicine science
Pages
75
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100128
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv W.C. Ross, S.E. Platt view
Annual Public Health Report of the Province of Bihar and Orissa for the Year 1924
1-35 W.C. Ross, S.E. Platt view
Appendix
i-xxxv W.C. Ross, S.E. Platt view

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