Annual sanitary report of the Province of Assam.

  • Assam (India)
Date:
[1926]
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Credit: Annual sanitary report of the Province of Assam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5. During the year under report, 206,728 births were registered in rural areas, r, • ii .... . , yielding a ratio of 30 84 per mille as compared with Birth registration in rural areas. 1 . ,, r , 194, 716 and 29*01, respectively, in the previous year and 197, 231 and 29*42, respectively, in the preceding quinquennium. Rural circles being considered individually the Kalaigaon circle in the Darrang district reported the highest rate (49*48), followed by Dudnai (43'20) in Goalpara, Ilailakandi (42*35) in Cachar, and Sorbhog (41*27) in Kamrup. The following rural circles reported rates below 20 per mille, which is probably due to defective registration—Gohpur (19*88) and Dhekiajuli (16*87) in the Darrang district, Dharma- passa (18*59) in Sylhet, Jamunamukh (17*40) in Nowgong, Majuli (12*81) in Sibsagar and Margherita (*65) in Lakhimpur. 6. The total number of deaths in the province during the year was 157,787 as _ „ . . _ , compared with 154,351 in the previous year. The provin- eat legislation— (nera. cjai death-rate for 1923 was 23*02 as compared with 22*52 in 1925 and 25*34, the quinquennial average. The highest district death-rate was recorded in Goalpara (28*37), followed by Darrang (26*86) and Kamrup (25*93). In all these districts kala azar is endemic and cholera was prevalent in epidemic form. The gradual decline in the Provincial death-rate would appear to have been maintained during the year. This has been due in large measure to the extensive campaign which has been undertaken in order to eradicate kala azar out of the province. Although the death-rate exceeded that of 1925 by *5 only, it has to be remembered that cholera was more prevalent in the province in 1926. In the Goalpara and Nowgong districts where kala azar is widely prevalent the death- rates for the year were well below their quinquennial average. In the Kamrup and Darrang districts where kala azar is also endemic the death-rates were a little higher than the quinquennial average and this was due to the prevalence of cholera in those districts. 7. During the year under report the number of deaths registered in urban areas , . . . , was 3,372 as compared with 3,525 in 1925. The death- 5 rates tor the two years and the quinquennial average were 22*60, 23*63 and 23 92, respectively. The largest death-rate was reported from North Lakhimpur in the Lakhimpur district (41*70). This was due to fevers, dysentery and diarrhoea. Habiganj in Sylhet district reported a death-rate of 34*13 and this was also due to fevers, dysentery and diarrhoea. Gauhati in Kamrup district reported a death-rate of 31*49 which was due to cholera and fevers. Tezpur in Darrang district reported a death-rate of 30*37 which was due to respiratory diseases and diseases grouped under the heading “ All other causes **. The Civil Surgeon, Sylhet, has been asked to investigate into the causes leading to the continued high mortality in the Habiganj town through its Health Officer. The lowest rate of 7*79 was reported from Maulvi Bazar in Sylhet district. Other low rates were Silchar (11*66) and Hailakandi (11*23) in Cachar district and Tinsukia (1104) in Lakhimpur district. These low rates were probably due to defective registration as there is nothing to show that these places were unusually healthy during the year. 8. The total number of deaths in rural areas during the year was 154,415 and ^ , , the death-rate per mille of population was 23*03 as Death registrations m rural areas. compared wjth 150,826 and 22*50 in 1925 and 25*38 the quinquennial average. Circle by circle, the highest death-rate was reported from Kalaigaon in Darrang district (50*76) due to fevers and cholera, followed by Rangia in Kamrup (44*89) due to cholera, Panerihat in Darrang (42*16) due to fevers and cholera, and Lumding in Nowgong (35 70) due to fevers. The rates reported from Majuli in the Sibsagar district (7*57) and Margherita in Lakhimpur (*48) were unreliably low and must have been due to defective registration.