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REPORT OF THE KING INSTITUTE, GUINDY.
feature in this table for some years back. Just what caused the fall in December
1913 it is difficult to say. Usually the figures go on at this season rising steadily
to a maximum, but the fall was only moderate in amount and of short dura
tion as by January there was an almost complete recovery, and February, with
the actual maximum for the year, is 1.1 per cent. above last year's figure plus the
annual overall improvement. This improvement was more than maintained into
March which usually begins to show signs of the hot weather drop.
TABLE VI.
Returns recorded in the King Institute from the whole of the Madras Presidency, according to districts,
1913-14.
Serial
number.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Districts.
Anantapur... ... ... ...
Bellary
...
... ... ...
Chingleput ... ... ...
Chittoor ... ... ...
Coimbatoro
...
... ...
Cuddapah ... ... ...
Gaujām
... ... ... ...
Gōdāvari
... ... ...
Guntur
...
... ... ...
Kistna ... ... ... ...
Kurnool ...
... ... ...
Madura
...
...
... ...
Malabar
...
...
... ...
Nellore ... ... ... ...
Nilgiris ... ... ... ...
North Arcot ... ... ...
Rāmnād ... ... ... ...
Salem ... ... ... ...
South Arcot ... ... ...
South Canara ... ... ...
Tanjore ... ... ... ...
Tinnevelly ... ... ...
Trichinopoly ... ... ...
Vizagapatam ... ... ...
Total ... ...
Total
successful.
25,424
33,897
34,102
31,550
58,241
32,378
75,131
58,919
56,410
79,273
32,900
48,249
143,655
38,300
4,743
54,457
54,296
62,504
64,305
38,834
62,538
62,526
63,955
98,944
1,315,531
Total un
successful.
1,504
837
6,659
2,720
15,550
2,708
3,900
10,686
5,474
6,081
1,138
7,841
12,629
4,599
109
6,390
1,249
3,949
8,345
2,526
2,108
3,259
3,438
6,322
120,012
Percentage
of success.
94.41
97.59
83.66
92.06
78.92
92.28
95.06
84.64
91.15
92.87
96.65
86.02
91.91
89.27
97.75
89.49
97.76
94.05
88.51
93.89
96.73
95.04
94.85
93.99
91.63
Table VI gives the results obtained according to districts. The figures show
some notable points, and it will be seen that a relationship noted in a previous
report when there was a fall in the success rate, namely, that bad districts were
more influenced than good ones, is maintained when there is a rise in the success
rate. Thus the three districts of Coimbatore, Chingleput and Madura which footed
the list last year show percentage improvements of 13.4, 13.8 and 11.8, respectively,
over last year's, which are much in excess of any of the others. Slight falls are
shown by Kurnool, the Nilgiris, Anantapur and Cuddapah. The last two of these
are quite out of the common, as they were not particularly good last year and
should have shown a slight rise.
TABLE VII.
Statement showing the percentage of success obtained in certain districts selected for comparison
in each of the last five years.
Serial
number.
1
2
3
4
5
Districts.
Bellary
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Anantapur ... ... ... ... ... ...
Kurnool
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Gōdāvari
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Coimbatore
...
...
...
...
...
...
1909-10.
97.86
96.80
95.42
85.44
81.17
1910-11.
96.51
94.86
96.20
71.29
75.54
1911-12.
97.65
95.23
96.16
78.13
75.74
1912-13.
96.48
95.45
96.95
79.04
69.59
1913-14.
97.59
94.41
96.65
84.64
78.92
Average
97.21
95.35
96.27
79.70
76.19