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

  • West Bengal (India). Directorate of Health Services.
Date:
[1952]
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Credit: Annual report on the health of the population of West Bengal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    & Four B.C.G. vaccination teams (each with one Medical Officer and six Technicians and one peon) carried out Mass B.C.G. vaccination campaign in the district of Hooghly. Two other Teams (each with one Medical Officer, two assistants and one peon) worked in schools, factories, refugee camps. Besides these, two part-time Medical Officers (each with an assistant and a peon) attended the B.C.G. clinic at the All-India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, and four maternity home and hospitals at Calcutta during the year under review. A total number of 418,238 persons were examined by Mantoux Text and 131,952 non-reactors were vaccinated with B.C.G. vaccine during the year, 1952. Institutional treatment facilities for T.B. patients in the Stater-^This has been narrated under “Medical Belief”—Chapter VI. Table below will show the numbers of deaths from various types of injuries during 1951 and 1952: — Causes. Number of deaths. r---v 1952. 1951. Homicide • • 264 254 Suicide • • 1,271 1,228 Wounds and accidents • • 4,164 4,173 Snake bites * ft 1,471 1,453 Attacks of wild animals • • 93 107 Rabies • • 127 118 Total • • 7,372 7,333 Deaths due to wounds and accident and attacks of wild animals showed a decrease and deaths due to remaining causes showed an increase in 1952 when compared with 1951. All other causes*^—Humber of deaths from all other causes recorded in 1952 was 88,277 against 93,024 in the previous year, the death rates being 3.6 and 3.8 per mille, respectively. w