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" Statement showing proportion of admission for fever from each district
" in the City of Bombay from 1st May 1908 to 31st April 1909 :—
*Forfc
"^Dockyard
*Mandvi
..
*Chakla
*Umarkliadi
•^Dongri
*Mnrket
*r>hobi Talao
Bhuleshwar
Null Bazar
Girgauro.
*Walkesli\var
Mahaluxmi
Kandewadi
*Mazagon
Tarwadi
Kamatipura
Nagpada
Jacob Circle
Parel
Mátunga
Mahim
Worli
* Water Policê
Prince's Dock
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• • •
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» • •
..
. » •
• • •
..
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..
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..
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Total .
No. of
Police.
325
81
71
63
70
45
72
81
69
76
33
55
45
72
51
68
53
33
43
54
55
81
72
96
112
1,882
No. of
Admissions.
440
267
140
56
38
29
51
102
24
22
22
46
17
32
56
27
15
21
36
29
23
19
110
311
1,941
Admission
per
thousand.
1,353-9
3,296-3
1,818*1
888-8
542-8
644-4
708-3
1,259-2
326-2
2S9 4
6666
836-3
377-7
444-4
1,098
397
283
212-12
488-4
666-6
527-27
296-3
263-8
1,145-8
2,776-8
1,031-3
* 1,12S—1459"2 per 1,000. This refers to Police engaged in the specially malarious areas.
N.B.—Office, Detective, Armed and Mounted Police are omitted owing to their residence being scattered.
ee These observations serve to give some idea of the amount of sickness
" produced by this disease within the City. As to the financial loss
"resulting directly and indirectly from this cause, no estimate can he
{C given, hut there is little question that it must amount to many lakhs
" of rupees annually. Such loss is necessarily very greatly increased when
" Malaria becomes epidemic as is has done in Bombay recently. But it
" must not be supposed that the disease was not present in considerable
" amount within the City previously. Enquiry shows that it has existed
" in certain parts of Bombay for many years and there is no likelihood
" of its dying out spontaneously. On the other hand there appear to be
" grave reasons for believing that in the absence of organized measures for
" its suppression, the disease will persist, and may even extend and increase
" in intensity in certain localities from time to time ; while so long as it
<e remains unchecked, the City will be exposed to the danger of epidemics
" similar to the one which has been witnessed during 1907-OS. Malaria
" presents in Bombay certain peculiarities both as regards distribution
" and propagation which are in marked contrast to generally recorded
" observations in other parts of India. In this City, Malaria., which is
" generally considered to be a disease of scattered rural districts and
" tracts of jungle and unopened country, may be found widely distributed
"through densely populated areas, such as Chakla, Umarkhadi and
" Khara Talao with populations of from 500 to over 600 persons per
e< acre. The explanation of this fact is given by a study of the habits
" of the mosquito which serves as the common carrier of the infection in
" this City. Eor the species of Anopheles—N. stephensi which serves to
" propagate Malaria within Bombay, is found to breed readily in wells,
" cisterns, tanks, tubs and in fact in almost any conceivable receptacle for
" water—natural or artificial—whereas in many places where other varieties
"of Anopheles are concerned—only natural breeding places such as