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.
Date:
[1927]
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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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    ( ?>4 ) (2) Mode] of the Puech-Chabal system of filtration at Cawnpore. (3) Exhibits of the Allahabad and Lucknow Town Improvement Trusts. (4) Statistical charts prepared at the Provincial Hygiene Institute and the department of Economics of the Lucknow Univer¬ sity. 77. The charge of the Malaria branch was held by Captain D. Clyde*. throughout the year. Dr. B. M. Roy acted as senior assistant and Dr. P. N. Chatterji as junior assistant. Malaria branch. Tours.—The Assistant Director of Public Health (Malariology), United Provinces, remained on tour for 220 days, the senior assistant for 152 days and the junior assistant for i04 days in the year. Work carried out.— (1) Under my instructions a new orientation was given to the working policy of the branch. The anti-malarial works at Banbassa were given a subordinate importance to the necessity of carrying out research work and work in other parts of the province. (2) Malarial surveys were made of the following places during the year :— (i) Banbassa. (ii) Kashipur and Bazpur tahsils, Naini Tal district, (iii) Certain villages in the Moradabad district, (iv) Daryabad, Bara Banki district. (v) Khurja town. (iv) Bhimtal, In addition visits were made to Moghal Sarai, Jaunpur, Hardoi and Shabjahanpur for the purpose of initiating or inspecting anti-malarial measures, During the Kashipur survey 2,393 children in the scattered villages of that tahsil were examined. (3) Laboratory work. — (a) In connexion with various surveys 2,260 blood films were examined, 311 of which or approximately 13*76 per cent., showed malarial parasites. (6) 26,991 anopheline mosquitoes were received and classified in connexion with a scheme for mapping out the provincial distribution of the various anophelines, This was in addition to those classified in connexion with the routine work at Banbassa and the various surveys numbering 19,951. (c) Over 300 “ carrier ” anopheline mosquitoes were dissected for oocysts and sporozoites. (4) Malaria training class. —A class of ten officers of the Public- Health department—four D. P H’s. and six L. P. H’s.—was given one month’s intensive training in malaria and anti-malarial measures, (5) Supervision of medical work.—Two hospitals and six dispensaries working in the Sarda Canal were inspected and supervised during tha- year.