Government of Bengal Public Health Department. Bengal Public Health Report Reports of the Bengal Sanitary Board and the Chief Engineer Public Health Department for the year 1925

Summary

The last week of the month was marked by a storm from the Bay which crossed the coast between Sagar Island and Balasore on the morning of the 28th and avancing in a north-westerly direction lay over Chota Nagpur on the morning of the 30th. [...] 11th to the 13th and from the 19th to 21st : the last fall was associated with a depression in the Bay which crossed the Orissa coast on the evening of the 21st and disappeared near Jubbulpur on the Section I.—Meteorology. [...] The very next day another depression formed near the Sandheads and moving north-west crossed the coast on the moring of the 7th and disappeared over the United Provinces on the 9th. [...] This confirms the opinion expressed in the report for the year 1923 that in the western portions of the province changes in the vital phenomena tend to move in a direction contrary to those in the east ". The following table taken from the 27th report of the Department of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics India shows that the yield of the jute which is the principal crop of Eastern Beng [...] Of the remaining three while the rates were the same in one district for the year under review and the decennium there was a decided increase as compared with the previous year; the other two districts recorded increases as compared with the previous year but decreases in comparison with the decennial mean.- Birth-rates per mille in districts.

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