16
Village or Hàmlet,
Sutarwada, Hamlet of Shahad
Tale, Hamlet of Eksar
Tari, Hamlet of Kolset
...
Tarodi, Hamlet of Dongri ...
Thakur, Hamlet of Eksar ...
Trombay
...
Utan
Vakola, Hamlet of Kolhe Kalyan
Valnai
Vesava
Vikhroli
Vila Parla
Vadavli (in Trombay)
Vadavli (N. of Thána)
Wagbil, Hamlet of Kavesar ...
Yerangal
Yeur
Total of Children examined ..
Place
on
map.
18
G
8
E 7
0
4
C
8/E
22/ L
5/B
19/F
31/E
14/C
17/ K
18/E
21/I
5/M
6
13/B
8/L
...
Size of Spleen in children examined.
Spleen
not
enlarged.
17
58
Spleens
29
21
74
194
53
37
108
2
127
13
Spleen
just
palpable.
1
...
Spleen
2—3
fingers
breadth
below
ribs.
...
not classified.
1
2
1
1
...
4
2
3
1
7
1
1
...
1
...
...
...
12
...
5
Spleens not classified,
Spleens not classified.
60
...
...
Spleens not classified.
...
...
...
Spleen
a hand's
breadth
below
ribs.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
8
...
2
...
...
...
...
...
Spleen
extend-
ing
down to
navel.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
13
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
Total
of
children
exa-
mined.
18
58
27
31
24
-75
196
53
41
110
38
128
28
133
164
60
88
7,156
Spleen
rate
per cent.
5.5
Nil,
41
6.5
12.5
1.3
1
Nil.
9.8
1.8
95
0.78
54
59
42
Nil.
94
...
The Spleen Census has its Scylla and Charybdis. On the one hand, if one
strikes a percentage on a very small number of children, as one sometimes must,
if hamlets are to he taken separately from the villages to which they belong,
there is a certainty of a very obvious kind of error. On the other hand, if the
figures for a village and a small hamlet belonging to it are added together for
the purpose of striking the percentage on as large a figure as possible, though
the children of the hamlet have a larger proportion of enlarged spleens than
those of the village, the percentage struck is not accurate either, being rather
higher than that of the village, and a good deal lower than that of the hamlet.
The principle here followed has been to compound the figures for a village
and its hamlets only when there was no great difference found between the
proportions of enlarged spleens, and to employ a special sign on the map to in-
dicate a place where the rate has been calculated on a very small number of
children.
In this connection the matter of class composition in different villages and
hamlets must be alluded to. It is found, as a rule, that the poorer fed a class
or caste of people is, the more liable are its members to Malaria, and vice versa,
and the peoples of Salsette are no exception to the rule. The children of the
well-to-do commercial castes who reside in villas in Salsette for part of the year
may be left out of account : their Spleen Hate would not have been taken even
had they been in residence, as their children are not born and bred in Salsette.
Brahmins, again, form such a ¡relatively small proportion of the inhabitants of
villages that no conclusions can be based on any figures relating to their
children. But in some villages almost the whole, and in others quite the whole
of the inhabitants are Indian Roman Catholics, and it was quite noticeable that
their higher standard of living makes them tend to have a lower Spleen Rate
than the average of cultivators. At the other end of the scale the distinctly