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MYSORE DI VI SI ON.
The general fever mortality is not only less in 1872 than in the previous year, which is
consonant with a remark made in the August number of the Madras Medical Journal,
regarding the diminished prevalence of fever in Southern India generally, but is very dif-
ferently distributed. Thus, while in 1871 the larger number of deaths were registered in
the first half of the year, and in the first " quarter " of that year, in 1872 the largest number
was recorded against the second half and the last quarter of the year. Again in 1871 the
largest mortality is recorded in January, and in 1872 in July.
Birth-rate.—The births registered in Mysore were only 45,602, or 12,388 less than the Birth-rate.
deaths, showing that birth registration is still very largely evaded.
Cholera
Nil.
Small-pox
307
Fevers
2,215
Bowel complaints
363
Suicide
10
Wounding
7
Accident
18
Wild beasts, &e.
8
All other causes
443
Coorg .—In Coorg, with an estimated population of 114,116 Coor
souls, 3,371 deaths were registered, or in a ratio of 29.54 per
mille, which may be accepted as pointing to satisfactory re-
gistration. The ratio is 16.41 per mille higher than in the
adjoining province of Mysore. The " Causes " of death in this
small province are as in the margin. Here the "fever"
mortality bears a higher ratio to the total mortality even than
in Mysore, being over 65 per cent.
In the different months and seasons of the year the mortality was as follows :—
Months.
Quarter.
Half-year.
January
*200
151
February
*202
* 636
146
354
March
*234
1 5 7
*1,678
April
*271
966
142
May
*348
*1,042
205
612
June
*423
265
July
4 0 3
273
August
* 3 3 6
*1,014
232
696
September
*275
191
* 1 , 6 9 3
October
*234
1,149
152
November
*234
* 679
166
453
December
*211
135
Here, as in Mysore, fever, mortality is higher in the second than in the first half of the
year, and the increase is very marked with the advent of the rainy season, which sets in
earlier here by a month than in the adjoining province. The highest mortality is from
May to August, the wet months of the south-west monsoon, and not the cold months of the
north-east monsoon ; facts which have a bearing upon the theory of malarious exhalations
being more active during the " drying up " period after the rains, and also upon the more
recent theory, that fevers are caused rather by the chills induced by reduction of tempera-
ture during the cold season, than by malarious exhalation at all.
It is true that the mortality by fever does not necessarily express the periods of
greater prevalence.
Any further analysis of the returns prepared for these provinces would be out of place
in this report.
The public health of the districts of Bellary, Cuddapah, and Kurnool, as illustrated by
the returns which reach me, is briefly given. The population† has
been obligingly given me by the Sanitary Commissioner. That for
Cuddapah and Kurnool has been revised in the Census Office, but that
for Bellary has not been so revised.
The following abstract table shows the deaths from different causes in the three dis-
tricts as compared with the previous year :—
NOTE.—The figures marked with an asterisk show the mortality by " all causes," and those ,without by
" foyer" only.
† Bellary
1,304,944
Cuddapah 1,360,999
Kurnool
960,335