Report on the Sanitary Administration of the Punjab and Proceedings of the Sanitary Board for the year 1918 and the Report on Sanitary Works for 1918

Summary

Deaths registered in the districts of the Punjab during each month of the year 1918.. Deaths registered according to specified age periods from different diseases in the districts of the Punjab during the year 1918.. Deaths registered according to classes in the districts of the Punjab during the year 1918... [...] Deaths registered from dysentery and diarrhoea in the districts of the Punjab during each month of the year 1918.. Deaths registered from Tespiratory diseases in the districts of the Punjab during each month of the year 1918 Deaths registered from plague in the districts of the Punjab during each month of the year 1918.. STATEMXNT. [...] The ahnormal wetness of March and April favoured the `breeding of the rat flea and the mortality was highest during the first four months of the year. [...] The reduction has been general throwhout the Punjab and is attributed jointly to the following causes :— the rise in prices of foodstuffs the absence of men the brisk epidemic of plague at the commencement of the year and the malaria epidemic in the autumn of the previous year and to the epidemic of influenza which is said to have peculiarly affected pregnant women. [...] In paragraph 2 of the review on the Annual Sanitary Report for 1917 it is stated that ignoring the case of Kangra a line drawn across the Punjab and following the eastern boundaries of the Sialkot Gujranwala Mang and Multan Districts divides the Province into two parts which correspond with the increase and decrease in the birth rate as compared with the quinquennial averages the eastern half

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Civilizational Studies