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REPORT OF THE KING INSTITUTE, GUINDT
8. Table V shows the returns recorded at the King Institute from the whole
of the Madras Presidency, excluding Madras City. It will be seen that there
has been over the whole year a most regrettable drop of 3.78 per cent in the
success rate as compared with last year. This is the biggest drop shown since
1910-11 and seems very difficult to explain. It is in the main due to extraordi
nary bad results in the first six months of the year when the average success rate
was only 77.12 per cent or 9.69 per cent worse than that of the corresponding
period of 1916. The results also come quite irregularly and do not show the usual
temperature curve, the defect as compared with the previous year varying from
3.46 per cent in September to no less than 15.51 per cent in July. In the second
six months of the year the average is 88.60 per cent or 0.32 per cent better than
the corresponding period of 1916-17 and the figures follow the normal curve and
even show the curious little autumnal drop in efficiency which has been frequently
adverted to before.
TABLE VI.
Returns recorded in the King Institute of Preventive Medicine, Guindy, from the whole of the Madras
Presidency according to districts, 1917-18.
Serial
num
ber.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
10
20
21
22
23
24
Districts.
Anantapur ... ... ...
Bellary
...
...
...
...
...
Chingleput ... ... ...
Chittoor ... ... ... ...
Coimbatore ... ... ... ...
Cuddapah ... ... ... ...
Ganjām ... ... ... ...
Godāvari ... ... ... ...
Guntūr ... ... ... ...
Kistna ... ... ... ...
Kurnnol ... ... ... ...
Madura ... ... ... ...
Malabar ... ... ... ...
Nellore ... ... ... ...
Nilgiris ... ... ... ...
North Arcot ... ... ...
Rāmnād ... ... ... ...
Salem ... ... ... ...
South Arcot ... ... ...
South Kanara ... ... ...
Tanjore ... ... ...
Tinnevelly ... ... ... ...
Trichinopoly ... ... ...
Vizagapatam ... ... ...
Total ...
Total
successful.
28,161
21,526
37,625
30,114
61,266
22,124
54,702
38,309
53,480
61,965
25,514
50,705
79,748
26,443
6,488
52,773
48,896
42,155
47,514
35,758
66,464
52,748
50,592
99,490
1,083,560
Total un-
successful.
8,662
1,546
9,644
4,274
23,993
5,934
9,866
24,378
6,766
7,936
832
11,105
23,627
9,897
329
7,631
3,515
5,073
12,533
7,334
4,810
11,679
7,456
17,566
221,386
Percentage
of success.
88.49
93.29
79.59
87.57
68.11
78.85
84.71
61.11
88.76
88.07
96.84
82.03
77.14
72.76
94.34
87.36
93.29
89.25
79.12
82.98
93.25
81.87
87.15
84.99
83.03
9. In Table VI an analysis of the returns is given district-war. Without a
single exception all the districts show lower figure though it is inappreciable in
5 being below 1 per cent. Kurnool which again heads the list is only 0.01 per
cent worse than last year, whereas Gōdāvari, too well accustomed to the bottom
of the list, is 7.23 per cent worse than last year and is a very bad last. The
defect in eight districts is definitely higher than the average defect, in eight
districts it is considerably lower and in five very much lower than the average.
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
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1913-14.
97.59
94.41
96.65
84.64
78.92
1914-15.
96.81
94.35
96.82
81.46
76.59
1915-16.
96.58
92.24
96.64
70.93
70.99
1916-17.
95.12
90.64
96.85
68.34
68.72
1917-18.
93.29
88.49
96.84
61.11
68.11
Average.
95.87
92.02
96.76
73.29
72.66