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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    Along River Hooghly. (1) Hatibpur. (2) Baikuntapur. (3) Jagannathpur. (4) Fuleswar. (5) Chengail under police-station TJluberia (Howrah). (1) South Dtim hum. (2) Baranagore (visited by localised outbreak of malaria in autumn). Southern Section of Eastern Railways. (1) Tollygunge police-station. (4) Sonarpur ipolice-station. (2) Moheshtola police-station. (5) Baruipur police-station*. (3) Budge-Budge police-station. (6) Canning police-station. (Intensive breeding was detected along the entire route from Ghuturia Sharif to Matla. Ghuturia Sharif and adjacent villages Bansra and ^iakaltala were under grip of malaria in autumn.) Other areas. (1) Breeding was detected in the Shyambazar new cut canal lying m between Salt Lake and the city of Calcutta and on other side of Salt Lake in the police-stations of Rajarhat and Bhangore. (ii) Adults species were collected from trains coming from Hasnabad and Basirhat at Shyambazar Railway Station and at Kristopur Lock Gate from boats carrying different cargo coming from Sandeshkhali and Lulpi, etc., of the Sundarbans area. All Ludlowii findings were duly reported to all local bodies concerned with suggestions to adopt suitable control measures. 2. Survey Squads.—Permanent Survey Squads of .this directorate played an important roll in connection with the Malaria Control Pro¬ gramme of the State of West Bengal. Malaria survey was carried out prior to initiation of any control scheme and again after the season was over to test the efficacy of anti-malaria operations so far earned out. The number of such survey was 120 during the year under report. (e) Development programme.—(1) Malaria control in the fringe area of Salt Water Lakes. (2) Districtwise Malaria Control Scheme. (1) The scheme consisted in controlling the breeding places of A. sundaicus in the salt-water-logged marshes on the east of Calcutta extending over an area of about 7-| miles in length. To protect the city of Calcutta and its surroundings from infiltration . of A. sundaicus, a dangerous carrier species, a belt at least half a mile deep all along t e western border of the Salt Lakes was first brought under control. Later on the control area had to be extended over a depth of three quarter of a mile in certain places. The whole area has been divided into 6 blocks, each in-charge of one Malaria Inspector with 3 to 4 labour gangs consisting of one Mate and 12—13 labourers.