Annual Public Health Report of the Province of Bihar and Orissa for the Year 1926

The provincial deatrate rose to 25.7 as compared with 23.7 in the previous year and 33.3 the average of the last ten years whilst the birth-rate rose to 37.2 as compared with 35.6 in the previous year and 35'8 the average of the last ten years. [...] By the publication of these sta' istics it is hoped to keep the' public informed of the actual state of health of the large towns and of the prevalence of diseases in the districts and to demonstrate the utility of vital statistics. [...] The infectious diseases the spread of which largely depends upon overcrowding density of population and the consequent facilities for infection are consistently more prevalent in the towns whereas fevers of which_ malaria is the chief are more prevalent in the rural areas where the facilitieare greater for the breeding of auopheline mosquitoes and where the economicondition of the pe [...] The Assistant Director of Public Health South Bihar Circle investigated the outbreak of cholera in two areas in his circle namely is the village of13 Parari in the Patna district and in the village of Sheikhpura in the new capital area of Patna. [...] The new public health cadre.— In the past exclusive of the Director three Assistant Directors of Public Health and the inspecting staff of the vaccination department nineteen officers ail of the assiAtant surgeon class were employed in the Public Health Department—of these the Chemical Analyst and the Superintendent of the Vaccine DepOt at Nanakum were permanent members of the Bihar and Oris