Annual report of the Mysore Department of Health.

  • Mysore (India : State). Department of Health.
Date:
[1932]
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Credit: Annual report of the Mysore Department of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    work was checked by the sanitary inspectors and occasionally by the City Health Officer during the rounds of inspection. One thousand, and forty deaths among infants under one year of age were reported, giving an infant mortality rate of 172*7 per 1,000 live births. There were reported 260 attacks and 125 deaths from smallpox. Necessary measures to prevent the spread of the disease were adopted. A total of 12,227 vaccinations was performed, of which, 6,851 were primary and the rest re-vaccinations. One hundred and forty attacks with 115 deaths from plague were registered during the year. Timely preventive measures, such as disinfection, isolation, inoculation etc., were adopted. Fifteen thousand, seven hundred and eighty- four anti-plague inoculations were performed, giving a rate of 137 persons immunised for each death. Thirty-nine deaths from typhoid fever were reported during the year as against 29 in the year previous. Five hundred and ninety-six anti-typhoid inoculations were given. Two hundred and seventy-five samples of water, 42 of motion, 36 of urine and five of blood were sent to the Public Health Institute for examination for enteric. One thousand, three hundred and six houses were disinfected as against 522 in 1931. The disinfection work was undertaken by a gang of 15 men working under a trained sanitary inspector. Five whole-time sanitary inspectors were on work and the number of houses inspected by them was 8,940. Five thousand, four hundred and sixty-eight notices were issued for sanitary defects under the various sections of the Municipal Regulation. Prosecutions were launched in 1,184 cases, 262 of which were convicted, 42 withdrawn, 22 acquitted and four struck off, and the remaining were pending at the close of the year. The amount of fine realized was Rs. 402-4-0. Eleven suspicious lepers and 65 vagrants were removed to the Epidemic Diseases Hospital. Three hundred and ten rodents were examined for plague during the year. Fifty-three were doubtful, 190 negative and 67 positive. Two hundred and forty-seven rats and six bandicoots were destroyed. This is a very poor number for the size of the city. The City Health Department organized small health exhibitions for the Welfare Institute of the Bangalore