Bijnor. Supplementary Notes and Statistics to Volume XIV of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh

The truth that generally speaking the higher the percentage of fever to the total mortality the better the health of the district is borne out by the figui es of the ten years ending with 1910. [...] have in view of the abolition of octroi and the consequent lightening of the work of their secretaries obtained the pemission of the Sanitary Commissioner under rule 12 of the rules referred to above to combine the duties of sanitary inspector with the duties of secretary and will get their present secrtaries trained at the King George's Medical College Lucnow as sanitary inspectors. [...] The selection of the villages was based on their size on the obvious necessity of some scheme of sanitation however primitive and on the willingness of the people to make the scheme a success. [...] The deteriorated condition of a number of villages in the Afzalgarh pargana belonging to the estate of K. Baran Singh in charge of the Deputy Commissioner Naini Tal as manager of the court of wards had attracted the attention of the Board of Revenue before the year 1901. [...] The increase in the population of the district is also evidence of the fact of the disappearance of agricultural deterioration which during the previous decade (1891-1900) had set the population wandering in unusually large numbers mostly into the neighbouing districts.