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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF MADRAS.
Vital statis
tics.
My sore
Province.
In the two divisions, then, under my superintendence the deaths are 899 in excess of
those registered in 1871.
Vital statistics.—The state of public health may be further briefly illustrated by the
vital statistics of my range so far as they are at my disposal.
Mysore Province.—In regard to the province of Mysore and Coorg I have before
explained that the returns in B. Form of the Government of India are rendered to my office,
in which Form C. and the annual Form I. to X. inclusive are compiled for the information
of the Chief Commissioner.
Districts.
Area.
Population.
Bangalore
2,914
709,311
Kolar
2,576
569,343
Toomkoor
3,608
485,927
Mysore
4,052
787,221
Hassan
3,292
633,247
Shimogah
3,798
467,057
Kadoor
2,294
295,275
Chituldroog
4,470
474,828
Total
27,004 4,422,209
The results of the Census of 1871 are not yet known,
the tabulation at present extending to two districts
only, neither is the area of the province yet accurately
ascertained.
Till these are determined, I have been instructed
by the Chief Commissioner to adopt the figures noted
in the margin, and upon these the birth and death
ratios and density of population are calculated. By the
close of the official year 1872-73 I hope to be in
possession of the results of the last census for each
Registration Circle (Taluq) in the province.
Deaths.
The population is estimated at 4,422,209. But in the Kolar and Bangalore Districts
the recent census has shown that it is 17 per cent. higher than that given above, and if the
tabulation of the general results shows a similar increase, it will raise the population to
about 5,173,984.
Deaths.—The number of deaths registered in the province are 57,990, giving a per mille
ratio to population as follows :
—
By census of 1867, 13.13 per mille.
By estimated results of Census of 1871 (founded upon increase, known to have resulted
in the districts of Bangalore and Kolar,) 11.2, being in the former instance 1.04 per mille
less than in the previous year. Both of these results are far below the actual death-rate, as
will be shown when contrasted with the deaths in the larger towns, especially Bangalore,
where registration is more efficiently carried out.
These deaths are distributed through the different months as follows :—
Months.
Quarter.
H a l f - y e a r .
January
February
4,221
3,889
12,144
March
4,034
A p ril
4,427
.. 25,963
May
4,487
13,819
June
4,905
July
August
2,182}
5, 71
16,7•)..,
,,.
September
4,834
October
5,202
32,027
November
5,084
15,295
December
5,009 ,
The mortality, then, is much higher in the second than in the first half of the year,
that is in the wet and cold, than in the dry and warmer months. The highest mortality
by " quarters" is in the third quarter, though the fourth quarter which shows the next
highest mortality, was marked by heavy rainfall. The month of July exhibits the highest
morality, by months.
Cholera
51
Smallpox
4,532
Fevers
31,140
Bowel complaints
6,284
Suicide
145
Homicide
107
Accidents
826
By snake-bite and wild
beasts
229
All other causes
14,676
The deaths by different " causes " are as noted in the
margin. The fever mortality, then, largely governs the general
mortality of the province, deaths recorded under that head
being 53 per cent. of the total mortality.
These fever deaths are distributed through the different
months as follows, and are contrasted with the deaths in the
previous year :—
Months.
1871.
Quarter.
1872.
Quarter.
January
3,630
2,432
February
2,965
9,401
2,148
6,826
March
2,806 .
2, 246
April
3,142
2,494
May
2,654
8,575
2,4991 .. 7,348
June
2,779
2,355
July
2,655
3,045
August
224
7,205
2,878
8,357
September
2,346
2,434
October
2,354
2,875
November
2,372
7,216
2,802
8,609
December
2,490
2,932