Annual Report of the Public Health Commissioner with the Government of India for 1924 with Appendices

1. As India possesses no system of general registration of sickness the state of the public health can only be estimated by considering the information supplied in the provincial birth and death returns in the reports of provincial administrative officers of Directors of Public Health of medical officers of health of municipalities and districts and of Government and other medical officers b [...] The chief features of the raifall of 1924 were briefly as follows : — I. The cold weather rainfall of January and February was above normal in North-West India but was in defect in Bengal Assam and the South of the Peninsula; the rainfall averaged over the plains of India was normal. [...] From October to December owing to the prolongation of the south-west monsoon conditions in the Bay and the weak incidence generally of the north-east monsoon rainfall was below normal in the south of the Peninsula. [...] The total area sown was slightly above the average and that of the previous year in the Circars; but below the average in the other districts especially in Anantapur North Arcot and Salem. [...] The prices of the principal food grains which were at first generally lower than in the previous year steadily rose in some of the districts owing to the unfavourable season ; and by the end of the year they were generally high especially in Ganjam Vizagapatam Godavari the Deccan and the Central districts.