Annual report of the Director of Public Health for the Government of Bombay.

  • Bombay (India : State). Public Health Department.
Date:
[1946]
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Credit: Annual report of the Director of Public Health for the Government of Bombay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    East Khandesh (17* 74) and Broach (17* 07). Out of the total deaths (185,993) due to fevers 44,884 are accounted for by the sub-heads Malaria (32,557), Measles (6,946), Enteric fever (5,233), Cerebro-Spinal Fever (109), Influenza (31), Kala Azar (5), Typhus (2) and Black water fever (1). The remaining deaths come under the omnibus heading of ‘‘other fevers” for want of specific details regarding the causes of deaths. Details of deaths from fever are shown below :— Malaria.—(vide Chapter Y). 32. Enteric fever.—Deaths due to enteric fever during 1946 numbered 5,233 against 6,443 in 1945 the ratios being * 23 and * 20 respectively. 33. Deaths from enteric fever in urban and rural areas.—The disease was more prevalent in the towns of Sholapur (124), Poona (111), Surat (100), Thana (69), Ahmedabad (56) and Bandra (44). In Bombay City 509 deaths were registered as compared with 616 in 1945. In the rural areas more deaths due to °enteric fever occurred in the Districts of Dharwar (542), Kolaba (418), Poona (306) Ratnagiri (271), Thana (251) and West Khandesh (237). Free diagnostic aid was furnished to private medical practitioners at the Haffkine Institute, Parel, Bombay. In the affected areas preventive measures, e.g. inoculation with T. A. B. Vaccine, disinfection of water supplies, anti-fly campaign and propaganda by means of leaflets \ were carried out. 34. Measles.—Six thousand nine hundred and foroy-six deaths due to measles jwere recorded against 3,871 in 1945, the death-rate being • 30 against *17 in 1945. The urban death-rate was * 37 and the rural * 22. 35. Death from measles in urban and rural areas.—The disease was more prevalent in the towns of Poona (347), Surat (270), Sholapur (220), Malegaon (129), Ahmedabad (128) and Dhulia (103) and in rural areas in the Districts of East Khandesh (945), Surat (427), West Khandesh (332), Dharwar (314), Belgaum (246), Sholapur (232) and Ahmednagar (195), Bombay City reported 625 deaths due to this cause. The increase in the deaths due to measles during the year under report in association with the increase in the number of deaths due to smallpox may in some measure be due to a few deaths due to smallpox reported as due to Measles. 36. Relapsing fever.—It was absent during the year. 37. Kala Azar.—Five deaths due to Kala Azar were reported in the Province from Bombay City. 38. Typhus. Two deaths due to this cause were recorded in Bombay City during the year. 39. Cerebro-Spinal Fever.—One hundred and nine deaths due to Cerebro-Spinal Fever were recorded in the Province of which 103 were from urban areas and 6 from rural areas. The urban and rural figures in 1945 were 211 and 11 respectively. Among towns Bombay City had (60) deaths, Ahmedabad (24) Sholapur (5) and Broach (4). In the remaining areas there was sporadic infection resulting only in 10 deaths. In the rural areas also the incidence was sporadic resulting in 6 deaths only. Isolation of cases for Cerebro-Spinal Fever was only possible in big towns having Infectious Diseases Hospitals, e.g. Bombay City, Ahmedabad, Sholapur and Poona. Pronaganda