Annual report of the Director of Public Health of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.

  • United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (India). Public Health Department.
Date:
[1937]
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Credit: Annual report of the Director of Public Health of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Rafc destruction was carried out by means of trapping and baiting. Cyanogas fumigation was also carried out in some places this year with good results. Two thousand one hundred and thirty-five pounds of Barium carbonate were supplied free of charge to districts and munici¬ palities and grants amounting to Rs.5,92l were given to district magis¬ trates and local bodies for anti-rat campaign. Epidemic Regulations—As mentioned under the heading cholera, epidemic regulations to control the spread of plague were promulgated where necessary. 10, Small-pox claimed 3,200 deaths in 1937 against 14,849 in 1936, Deaths and death- showing a decease of 11,649. The death-rates for in^eSthe°m SIrovince two years were *07 and *30, respectively, and [statement VIII). the quinquennial average • 28. Of the 3,200 deaths, 933 occurred among children under one year of age, 1,034 between the ages of one to ten years and the rest among adults. The highest mort¬ ality (501) was recorded in May and the lowest (60) in October. (A sepa- * rate report on vaccination is contained in Chapter XIII of the report.) 11. Mortality from this cause was most marked in the districts of Ballia\*33), Ghazipur (*29), Gorakhpur (*21)and Smallpox in districts Jaunpur ( 20). The districts of Mainpuri, Budaun, inclusive of towns. Shahiahanpur, Hardoi, Bahraich and Bara Banki were entirely free from the disease while the num¬ ber of deaths reported from the districts of Muzaffarnagar, Bareilly, Pilibhit, Naini Tal, Sitapur, Rheri and Sultanpur was too small to yield a ratio. 12. The total number of deaths registered from small-pox in 1937 in these areas was 784 against 1,730 in 1936. Smallpox in urban The rates for the two years were -14 and *32, ar/ec?Ls'4. * T7T t>\ respectively. Three hundred and twenty-seven (Statement VI-15). . r , c towns out of 467 were quite immune from the dis¬ ease, while in 98, the number of deaths did not exceed ten. Of the re¬ maining towns the worst affected were Mandawar (district Bijnor), Jag- ner (district Agra) and I >ankaur (district Bulandshahr) with respective death-rates of 10*82, 9*68 and 4-75. 13. In 1937, 2,416 deaths were returned from the disease in the rural areas against 13,119 in 1936, the death- Smallpox in rural rates for the two years being *06 and *30, arfo+S*ttt a \ respectively. Ballia with a death-rate of *35 stood (Statement VI-A). n r , J r ,, , , , first ana was followed by Ohazipur, Uorukhpur and Jaunpur with *31, *21 and * 19, respectively, Eleven districts were immune from the disease while in 15 districts the number of deaths due to smallpox did not exceed seven. The lowest death-rate was recorded in the districts of Agra, Farrukhabad, Jalaun, Garhwal, Lucknow, liae Bareli, Partabgarh with a uniform death-rate of 01 in each case. N.JB.—A graph showing weekly incidence of deaths from plague, oholera and smallpox is attaobed. 14. As stated in previous reports there are no regular smallpox Smallpox hospitals. hl?Pitals ia.the3e, Proviace3; Iu £tht subjoined table are given the particulars of the patients