Journal of the Gujarat Research Society July 1947

The arrangement of the divisions of the territories covered by British Gujarat and the Indian States is strictly in an alphabetical order and not in the order either of administrative or political importance. [...] The figures of density of population and the distribution of males and females in each area describe also the social and economic forces working in the region. [...] The estimates of area and yield in India particularly are at present subject to severe criticism in the light of the results obtained from the sample surveys of the acreage statistics of certain food crops and their yields carried out at the instance of the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research. [...] STATISTICAL ABSTRACT OF MAHA GUJARAT 175 VII—HOSPITALS The care of the sick is the responsibility of the State. [...] The number of hospital and dispensaries in a given area points to the thought and consideration displayed by the State for the physical welbeing of the population.