Annual report of the Director of Public Health of the Uttar Pradesh.

  • Uttar Pradesh (India). Public Health Department.
Date:
[1948]
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Credit: Annual report of the Director of Public Health of the Uttar Pradesh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VI Rural Sanitation Advice was given to the Rural Development staff and to villagers on the construction of sanitary works and the improvement of wells. A provision of Rs. five lakhs was made in the year 1948-49 for improvement of water-supply in rural areas and in hill villages. The offer of interest-free loans for improvement or construction of drinking water wells, of which mention was made in last year’s report, was not availed of to any large extent. Bored'hole privies.—“An intensive drive for popularising bored-hole latrines in rural areas is shortly to be made. The bores are to be made free of charge. The super- stucture is to be made by the people. One borer to start with is being provided by Govern¬ ment in each district. Squatting plates will be made by health departments locally and issued at cost price. Health Unit at Pratapgarh continued to function. It covers an area of 67 square miles, with 123 villages and population of 60,013 rural and 19,405 urban. Over 240 manure pits were dug, 48 soakage pits were constructed, 16 bored-hole latrines were installed, 18 drinking water w*lls were protected, 36 old wells were repaired) H bathing platforms were constructed and 66 cattle sheds were made sanitary during the year. Expenditure by District Boards on Public Health.—The total receipts of District B Dir is in the province from all sources including Government grant during the y nr 1917-48 vvis R?. 3,88,56,501 out of which expenditure on Public Health was Rs. 10,72,331 distributed as follows :—• R§. I. Public Health staffjincluding all establishment charges on Public Health. • •• tot 1st 2,96,833 2. Maternity and Child Welfare. • O O *09 999 17,350 3. Vaccination. ... • • • • O • 5,10,969 4. Epidemic diseases excluding hospitals, dispensaries and 44,813 infectious diseases hospitals but including cost of quinine. • • • 5. Fairs and markets • 11 • 0 • 0 • • 1,00,829 6. Slaughterhouses. • •• • 11 3,918 7. Infectious Diseases Hospitals. • • • • 11 100 8. (Conservancy) Capital • •• • O • • 0 • 46.124 Ordinary • • • V • * • • • 7,027 9. (Drainage) Capital • • • • 0 t 4,424 Ordinary tea • • 0 300 10. (Water Supply) Capital vet • • • 2,307 Ordinary • Of • • • 6,752 11. Food Adulteration tot • • • 30 12. Public Health propaganda • • • • •• 2,936 13. Miscellaneous sanitary charges • 0 • o » *» • • 9 27,619 CHAPTER VII Malaria No undue prevalance was reported in the year 1948 except from Mathura and Agra districts, as against eight districts in the previous year. An epidemic was apprehended due to heavy rains and floods and, as a safeguard, the affected areas were equipped in advance \vith anti-malaria drugs and D.P?T*