Sixty-Sixth Annual Report of the Director of Public Health for the Government of Bombay for the year 1929 with Appendices including the Annual Reports of the Health Officers of the Ports of Bombay Karachi and Aden

In spite of the fact that Assistant Directors repeatedly bring the evils of defective registration of births to the notice of the Municipalities of the towns they inspect and suggest means for improving the system of registration no attempt appears to have been made by any mofussil municipality in the Presidency for carrying out these recommendations. [...] The decrease in births can be partly attributed to the unusual amount of illhealth in the latter part of 1929 due to the prevalence of Cholera and Malaria and partly to the changes in the registration agencies--from the School masters to the Revenue Tappedars. [...]. " The District Local Board Hyderabad having however accepted the proposal of maintaining the birth and death registers by school masters the Collector of the district supported it by taking the necessary action and the Commissioner in Sind was again requested to ask Collectors to try and induce the other local boards to take similar action with regard to the registration of births and death [...] The omissions of 35 births and 6 deaths were detected in the Western Registration District of 693 births and 1 deaths in Sind against 1 615 births in 1928 ; of 446 births in the Central Registration District against 85 births and 18 deaths in 1928 ; of 268 births and 20 deaths in Gujarat Registration District against 229 and 16 respectively in the previous year. [...] The percentage of population occupying tenements of oneroom and under to the total number' of occupants in all classes of tenements in the City by the Census of 1921 was 66.