Report on the Public Health Administration of the Punjab during the Year 1931 Together with the Report on Sanitary Works during the Year 1931

VI-C Births and deaths registered in the cantonments of the Punjab during the year 1.930.. VII Deaths registered from cholera in the districts of the xxxiv Punjab during each mouth of the year 1930.. XXXV VIII Deaths registered from smallpox in the districts of the Punjab during each month of the year 1930.. [...] The monsoon extended into the Province on the 4th July and was unusually active during the greater part of the month under the influence of four disturbances from the Bay of Bengal thus resulting in very heavy falls in the east and north Punjab on the 27th. [...] A break in the rains which commenced in the plains at the beginning of the third 'week had extended to the hills also after the 22nd and during the rest of the month there was no rain in the province. [...] This falling off in the births is attributable to the epidemic of malaria which took place in the autumn of 1929 of which the effect is reflected in the births of the year following the epidemics. [...] The main features of the year therefore were :—(1) the steady shrinkage of the endemic area combined with a tendency of the disease to persist in the relatively humid districts in the foot-hills of the Himalayas ; (2) the low diffusive power and the low intensity of the epidemic and ;3) its early and complete decline in June and its rappearance in a restricted number of localities in the aut