Annual report of the Director of Public Health of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.

  • United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (India). Public Health Department.
Date:
[1938]
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Credit: Annual report of the Director of Public Health of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    13. During the year under report 3,244 deaths occurred from smallpox in the rural tracts as compared with 2,416 deaths in 1937. The death-rates for these years were 0*07 and VTA-) iaiai;emenL 0’06 respectively. Bulandshahr with a death-rate of 0-30 stood first and was followed by Meerut, Jaunpur and Hamirpur, with 0*28, 0*26 and 0*23 respectively. Three districts were immune from the disease while in 10 districts the number of deaths due to smallpox did not exceed 10. The lowest death-rate (0*01) was recorded in the districts of Bareilly and Partabgarh. The districts of Dehra Dun, Muttra, Shahjahanpur, Etawah, Benares, Hardoi, Gonda and Bahraich recorded a uniform death-rate of 0'02. N.B.—-Graphs showing weekly and yearly incidence of deaths from plague, cholera and smallpox are attached* 14. As stated in previous reports there are no regular smallpox hospitals in these provinces. In the subjoined Smallpox hospitals table are given particulars of the patients treated in the infectious diseases hospitals where such exist or in the hospitals- with infectious diseases wards : Serial number i Name of place where the hospital is situated Number of patients treated in the hospital Vaccinated as evidenced by <1 presence of one or more o vaccination cicatrices <^2. — -£3 Stated to have been success* ® £ fully vaccinated, but no g* o vaccination cicatrix present ^ § Stated to be unvaccinated or o vaccinated unsuccessfully o' and no vaccination cicatrix ® B present & 2, Previously unvaccinated, but *■> tr vaccinated during incuba- tion of smallpox ~ %. Stated to have been success- fully revaccinated 2- Remarks 1 Dehra Dun 6 5 • • 1 6 • 2 Mussoorie 2 2 • • • • • • 3 Hardwar 49 38 <9 e 16 • • Out of 49 patients 10 died 4 Muttra munici- 33 14 6 13 • • pality. 5 Brindaban munici- 122 56 • • 66 • 0 pality. 6 Agra municipality 24 17 • • 7 • • 7 Cawnpore *. 89 21 6 52 10 3 Jkansi 4 1 • » 3 9 9 9 Benares 14 13 • • 1 9 9 10 N aini Tal 19 11 • • 8 • * One unvaccinated died. 11 Lucknow 71 30 • & 41 9 • Six vaccinated and 13 unvaccinated died. 12 Ajodhya (Fyzabad) 3 1 • • 2 • • 13 Amroha (Morad- 1 • • • • 1 • • abad). 14 Allahabad 9 7 • • 2 • * • A 15 Moradabad 4 4 • e> • • • • 16 Farrukhabad 3 • • • • 3 • • One died.