Annual report of the Mysore Department of Health.

  • Mysore (India : State). Department of Health.
Date:
[1936]
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Credit: Annual report of the Mysore Department of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. G. 4124-44—“P. H. 12-37-3, dated 25th November 1937. Information has not been furnished uniformally in respect of all the areas and the comparison is further rendered difficult by the fact that the registration of births and deaths in rural parts is seriously defective. The infantile death rate .in the Kolar Gold Field area shows a tendency to increase, whereas it has gone down considerably in the other City areas. 10. The following is a statement of some of the preventive measures adopted in the areas for which separate Health Officers have been appointed. Areas 1 Number of inno- culations against Cholera 1 Number of vacci¬ nations Number of inno - culations against Plague 1 Number of inno- culations against typhoid Number of dogs destroyed Bangalore City 4 3,310 11,551 7,127 2,003 2,491 Mysore City 387 17,680 4.807 551 3,283 Kolar Gold Field ... • • • 12,022 223 • • « 1,133 Mysore District ... 11,698 37,465 14,806 • »• • • • • Shimoga District ... 41,696 35,916 3,644 • • • • • • 11. In order to obtain a clear idea of the health staF employed in the Municipalities and the amounts spent on health services, detailed information was obtained for the first time during the year from each Municipality. It w'as found that in the Municipalities of Bangalore and Mysore and on the Kolar Gold Field, 19 Sanitary Inspec¬ tors, 21 Vaccinators, 16 Midwives, 125 Sanitary Overseers and Maistries and 1,306 Sweepers and Scavengers were employed, while in 104 Town and Minor Municipalities, 34 Sanitary or Assistant Sanitary Inspectors, 29 Vaccinators, 36 Midwives, 63 Sanitary Maistries and 1,287 Sweepers and Scavengers were employed, the populations served in the three Cities and the 104 Municipalities being 404,580 and 596,192, respectively^ 12. The Municipal income of the three city areas was Es. 24,32,312, of which Rs. 7,93,835 or (32*6 per cent) was spent on public health services, including the annual