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LABIATE. 



population, tlie actual average mortality, and the mortality per 

 mille of each district in the Bombay Presidency : 



District 



Average 

 actual 

 mortality 

 Census of from snake- 



Population 



by 



1881. 



bite, 1878 

 to 18S5. 



Average 

 mortality 

 per mill€f 



1878 to 

 1885. 



Hydi^abail 



Thar and Parkar 



Karachi 



Eatnagiri ........ 



ThaiiH 



Panch Mahals 

 Shikarpur .... 



Surat 



Kaira 



Broach , 



Ufippr Sind Frontier 

 Kolaba , 



Ahmedabad 

 Sattara ... . 



Kanara .... 



Belgaum.-.. 

 Poona ....... 



Dharwar.,., 

 Khandeish. 

 Bijapur ..., 

 Nasik 



\ 



Ahmednagar 



Sholap 



ur 



754,624 

 203,34.4 

 478,688 

 997,090 

 908,548 

 255,479 

 852,986 

 614,198 

 804,800 



326,9,30 

 124,181 

 381,649 



856,324 



1,062,350 



421,840 



864,014 



900,621 



882,907 



1,237,231 



638,493 



781,206 



751,228 



582,487 



1817 

 48-7 

 87-2 



154-5 



1088 

 30-5 

 72-8 

 415 

 47-2 

 191 

 6-7 

 19-8 

 396 

 41-0 

 160 

 30-2 

 18-6 

 176 



23-1 

 110 

 10 8 

 10-3 

 2-2 





0-247 

 0-239 

 0-182 

 0155 

 0-119 

 119 

 085 

 0-067 

 0-0586 



0584 



053 



0-052 



0-046 



038 



0-037 

 0-034 



0-020 

 0019 



0018 

 0017 



00133 

 0-0137 



003 



E, 



Thus three Sind districts and Eatnagiri, in all of which the 



list with an average mortality, taking the four districts together 

 of -205 per 1,000. On the other hand, in the last four districts 

 on the list, viz., Bijapur, Nasik, Ahmednagar and Sholapur, 

 the combined average mortality per mille is only '0118. In 

 other words only one man dies of snake-bite in about 100,000 

 in these Deccan districts, while in the ^c/i/:s-ridden tracts one 

 man dies in every 5,000. Daboias and kraits are probably 

 nowhere so common in Western India as to have much appre- 

 ciable effect on the mortality. But cobras are quite as common, 

 I believe, in these Deccan districts as they are in liatnaniri or 



