Leprosy in India : a report / by T.R. Lewis and D.D. Cunningham.

  • Lewis, T. R. (Timothy Richards), 1841-1886.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Leprosy in India : a report / by T.R. Lewis and D.D. Cunningham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    twenty years following the first census. This population is equal to ahout one-third of that of North and South Wales together, and yields a mean of 58 persons to the square mile. TABLE 4.—Population of the District of Kumaun. Census Retuens fob 1852. 1864. 1872. 360,011 394,923 406,042 Source of our statistical informa tiou. During our stay at Almora, General Ramsay very kindly placed these returns at our disposal, and appointed a clerk to transcribe the data re- garding the number of lepers from the original census papers which were written in the vernacular. These were arranged under the immediate supervision of the Officiating Junior Assistant Commissioner, Mr. G. H. Batten, to whom we are greatly indebted for the care with which he sifted the statistical records for us. The country is divided into 19 sub-districts or parganas. The terms pargana and patti. ^ach of which may be Said to correspond to a county in Eng- land; and each of these parganas again is sub-divided into pattis, which may be described as parishes. Each patti has one of its leading men told off who is the recognised chan- nel of communication between the inhabitants of the vil- lages within its boundaries and the Civil authorities. It is through these officials that the population has been estimated. We found that there was no absolute uniformity in the , ^. data supplied from the different jyotwithstanding sources of error t,„+4-:„ Tv, l^ i. m the statistics, pattis. in somc 01 the returns no mention is made of the pre- sence or absence of lepers in the particular district, whereas m other returns the halt, the blind, and the lep ers are re- turned under one heading. And further, it is probable that, m the majority of instances, the cutaneous affection com-