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.
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[1924]
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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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    Fifty-seventh Annual Report of the Director of Public Health, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, for the year ending the 31st December, 1924, (Sections I, II, III and IV are omitted in accordance with the orders of the Government of India, Home department, no. 9/257, dated the 4th September, 1878.) SECTION Y. General population—Vital Statistics. The provincial birth and death rates shown in this report have been Population of the calculated on the population according to the '+-J0V^C/?S +?.n Census of 1921, which, excluding that of the which birth and death- a, , „ ^ m u • n u i j o rates have been cal- states of Kampur, iehri Uarhwal and Henares, culated- was 45,375,787. * 2. The question of introducing a better system of registration with . a more adequate organization than the present statistics.9^10110 V1 a agency, the village chaukidar, has been held in abeyance owing to financial reasons. Various alternative schemes have been suggested. The Local Government propose to examine the whole question in the near future. The duty of reporting births and deaths in town areas administered under the Town Areas Act, 1914, has recently been transferred by Government from the police to the town area staff and, as suggested by the Director of Public Health, orders have been issued that the system in force in municipalities should be introduced in every town area unless, in any case, there are special circumstances unfavourable to its adoption. A set of model byelaws drawn up by the Director of Public Health has been circulated. 3. The provincial birth-rate recorded during 1924 amounted to The birth and death- 34*72 against 36 04 for the preceding year and rates of 1924 compared 34*11, the quinquennial average. The death-rate With those oHM^and for the province was 28-29 as compared with period. 2o*o7 in 1923 and 33'37, the mean for the previous (Statements I and II.) five years. The death-rates showed an increase under all heads except under Plague and Injuries. 4. In the following table, the birth and death-rates and the infan- Tbe birth and death- mortality of the United Provinces are corn- rates and infantile pared with those of other provinces :— mortality of the United Provinces compared with those of other pro¬ vinces.