REPORT OF THE KING INSTITUTE, GUINDY
9
TABLE VI.
Returns recorded in the King Institute of Preventive Medicine, Guindy, for the whole of the Madras
Presidency, according to districts, 1915-16.
Serial
num
ber.
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 ...
...
...
...
Coimbatore
...
...
...
Cuddapah ... ... ...
Ganjām ... ... ... ...
Godāvari ... ... ...
Guntūr ... ... ... ... ...
Kistna ... ... ... ...
Kurnool ... ... ... ...
Madura
...
...
...
...
Malabar ... ... ... ...
Nellore ... ... ... ...
Nilgiris ... ... ...
North Arcot ... ... ...
Rāmnād ... ... ... ...
Salem ... ... ... ...
South Arcot ... ... ... ...
South Canara ... ... ...
Tanjore ... ... ... ...
Tinnevelly ... ... ...
Trichinopoly ... ... ...
Vizagapatam ... ... ...
Total ...
Total
successful.
24,731
33,679
31,921
36,662
48,730
27,492
57,716
41,622
54,287
70,397
29,479
46,627
138,671
34,611
5,774
54,860
55,208
47,772
49,932
40,220
70,721
63,340
59,212
100,354
1,224,018
Total un
successful.
2,080
1,191
11,361
2,756
19,913
4,709
8,126
17,057
5,678
7,849
1,024
11,492
18,888
6,849
134
8,065
1,898
3,053
9,915
5,127
3,220
6,768
6,485
7,911
171,549
Percentage
of success.
92.24
96.58
73.75
93.00
70.99
85.37
87.65
70.93
90.53
89.96
96.64
80.22
88.01
83.48
97.73
87.18
96.67
93.99
83.43
88.69
95.64
90.34
90.12
92.69
87.70%
successful.
9. Table VI gives the success rate districtwar. Coimbatore as usual has made
a bold bid for the lowest place, but has been beaten by a hair breadth by Gōdāvari.
Chingleput is a very bad third to the miserable first and second. They are the
only three to record success rates below eighty, and nearly account by themselves
for the drop in the success rate over the whole Presidency. Falls such as 11.62
per cent shown by Chingleput and 10.53 per cent shown by Gōdāvari require some
explanation. Considerable falls in the success rate, i.e., falls greater than the
general fall, are shown by Ganjām, Cuddapah, Coimbatore, Nellore, South Arcot
and North Arcot. The falls range in the order given from 6.75 per cent to 3.74
per cent. Madura, Tinnevelly, Trichinopoly and South Canara show falls in the
success rate approximating to the general fall, while falls definitely less than this
are shown by Malabar, Anantapur, Chittoor, Vizagapatam, Kistna and Guntūr.
Variations from last year of less than 0.4 per cent are shown by Rāmnād, Bellary,
Kurnool, Tanjore and Salem. Of these the last, Salem, is in the right direction
of improvement. This distinction Salem shares with the Nilgiris alone which
shows a satisfactory rise of 0.87 per cent and heads the list with a success rate
of 97.73 per cent.
All the districts showing small variations are consistently good ones, while
those showing large variations are consistently bad. This relationship has been
noted in previous years.
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
...
...
...
...
...
1911-12.
97.65
95.28
96.16
78.13
75.74
1912.13.
96.48
95.45
96.95
79.04
69.59
1913.14.
97.50
94.41
96.65
84.61
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
Average.
97.02
94.33
96.64
78.84
74.36
c