Speeches and Writings of Sir Dinshaw Edulji Wacha

We have no doubt that the mortality in the period up to May would leave been less had more works been opened near the peoples' homes in the Kaira and the Paneh Mahal Districts and had the provisions of the Famine Code in regard to the distribution of gratuitous relief in the villages been acted upon with thee liberality. [...] We are also of opinion that much of the cholera mortality would have been avoided had the provision in reserve of toseheme of village works enabled the authorities to split up the large works and return people to their homes and had the organization on the works been more efficient." Thus it will be seen how the famine policy of the Bombay Government was comparajively a failure. [...]. The collapse of Gujarat was to some extent unexpected but how do Government reconcile the confession in the fifth paratrgph of their letter that they under-estimated the resources'and staying power of the inhabiants of that province with the statemtant in the third section of the next paragraph that the relations of the Collector with the subordinate officers are.so clese that nothi [...] sympathy for the woes and sufferings of the starving and the dying of orphans and widows of the sick and the.infirm of the less able-bodied and the helpless women— these demand paramount consideration. [...] 2physicipn has diagnosed the disease that he is able to prscribe a cure: To probe therefore to the bottom of the cause or causes of the severe famines which have recently visited this country and which threaten to be more frequent than before is the paramount duty of the citizen and the State alike.