Annual report on the health of the population of West Bengal.

  • West Bengal (India). Directorate of Health Services.
Date:
[1950]
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Credit: Annual report on the health of the population of West Bengal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fifty projects for water-supply and sanitary arrangement for the following areas were under execution under direct control and supervision of the Direc¬ torate of Public Health Engineering:— Projects. (i) For urban areas .. .. .. .. 18 (ii) For rural areas— (a) Water-supply and sanitary arrangement for 10 health centres in the districts of Howrah, Midna- pore, Bankura, Hooghly, Burdwan, Birbhum, Malda, Murshidabad, Nadia and 24-Parganas. (in) For other rural areas . „ 22 60 The total estimated cost of all these projects amounted to Rs. 53,57,740. Besides the above projects 116 water-supply and sanitary projects for different refugee camps and colonies were also under execution under control and super¬ vision of Directorate of Public Health Engineering at a total estimated cost of Rs. 56,90,210. Maintenance of works.—The following works were maintained during the year under report:— y (1) Digri T. B. Hospital Water-supply. (2) Beltola Refugee Camp Water-supply Scheme. (3) Kalimpong Waterworks. (4) D.I. Fund Water-supply. (5) Kanchrapara T. B. Hospital Waterworks. Septic tanks and activated kludge Plant.—Regular inspections were made of septic tanks in the mills and factories, particularly at the time of desludging. Annual desludging of all septic tanks and filter beds is now insisted upon. Management of sewerage and waterworks by the local bodies.—There were 30 waterworks in operation in the State. As required by the rules regulating the managements of waterworks and sewerage works of local bodies, routine duties consisting of checking of monthly returns, scrutiny of annual budget estimates, scrutiny of monthly reports on analysis of water, etc., were carried out by the Directorate of Public Health Engineering. Annual inspection of various municipal waterworks and sewerage works were made by the Executive Engi¬ neers and necessary reports with recommendations were forwarded to the muni¬ cipal authorities concerned for necessary action. Receipts of the Directorate as departmental fees for works executed for the year under review :— Rs. as. 9,058 15 51,619 4 6,638 7 (1) Fees for preparation of schemes (2) Fees for supervision of execution (3) Miscellaneous receipts