APPENDIX.
49
HEALTH OF CALCUTTA— contd.
Deaths per
1,000 above (+)
or below (-)
average.
Causes.
Last week ... +13.9
More plague, fever,
bowel-complaints
and all other
diseases.
1st week ... + 7.8
More cholera, plague,
small pox and all
other diseases.
Less fever and
bowel-complaints.
2nd " ... + 14.
More plague, small
-pox, fever, bowel-
complaints, and all
other diseases.
3rd " ... + 3.6
More plague and all
other diseases.
Less cholera and
fever.
Last " ... +52.4
More cholera, plague,
small-pox, fever,
bowel-complaints,
and all other
diseases.
1st week ... +28.8
More cholera, plague,
small-pox, fever,
bowel-complaints,
and all other
diseases.
2 n d ” . . . + 2 1 .
Ditto.
3rd ” ... + 6.8
Ditto.
4th ” (to
27th) ... + 7.5
More fever, bowel-
complaints, and
all other diseases.
Less cholera and
plague.
1st week (28th
October to 3rd
November) ... +13.1
More fever, bowel-
complaints, and all
other
diseases.
Less plague.
2nd week ... +12.1
Ditto.
3rd ” ... + 9 . 5
More
small-pox,
fever, bowel-com-
plaints, and other
diseases.
Less
cholera and plague.
4th ” ... +44
.7
More cholera, small-
pox, fever, bowel-
complaints, and all
other diseases. Less
plague.
Last ” ... + 9.9
More cholera, plague,
bowel-complai
nts, and all other
diseases. Less
fever.
and South-West Bengal; elsewhere there was
general excess, both day and night temperature
contributing to it. The rainfall was unevenly
distributed, having been largely localised by the
influence of the cyclonic storms which formed
at the head of the Bay. In Orissa alone was
there superabundant rainfall. south-West
Bengal received 91 per cent. of the normal,
while in the west of the Province it was large
-ly in defect.
September.—The main feature of the pres
-sure distribution almost throughout the month
was that it was relatively high in the eastern
districts and low in the south-west, so that the
winds were more easterly than usual over the
Province. This had an important effect on the
rainfall distribution, giving considerably less
rain in North and East Bengal,and falls largely
in excess of the normal in the other divisions.
In the early part of the month the tempera
-ture was practically normal and was thereafter
in considerable excess, being unusually low
over the whole Province during the period of
disturbed weather which continued from the
19th for several days. Rainfall was com
-paratively light in the eastern districts, but in
the south and west there was everywhere a
large excess, owing to the exceptionally heavy
rain caused by the disturbance at the end of
the third week.
October.—The chief features of the weather
were—
(1) Cold season pressure conditions
having appeared earlier than usual,
the month was cooler and drier
than in average years.
(2) Two disturbances occurred during the
month, the first causing cloudy,
showery weather in the western dis
-tricts between the 6th and 12th and
giving heavy rain in Orissa; and
the second, which occurred towards
the end of the month, gave cloudy
weather over the whole Province,
but only light showers fell, and those
in the southern districts. Rain
-fall was thus largely in defect in
Bengal Proper, and slightly so in
Bihar and Chota Nagpur.
November .—Weather during the month
was fine and settled with little or no
interruption over both the Province and the
Bay. Pressure was practically normal for the
month as a whole. With the unbroken, cloud
- l e s s w e a t h e r w h i c h b e c a m e e s t a b l i s h e d a f t e r t h e
first week and continued throughout the
month, temperature was generally high over
the Province, more specially day temperature.
Rainfall was practically nil. A few showers
fell between the 2nd and 4th in Lower Bengal
and Orissa, but the amounts registered were
insignificant, except in East Bengal, which
received nearly a quarter of the normal amount
for the month.