1904.] L. Ro^'ers — Special Report on Fever in Binajpxir Dist. 



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data collected, the whole of the cases must first be summarised in the 

 following form which the Sanitary Commissioner has asked for : — 



Table I. 



Total nainber of deaths from " fever'* 



Number of deaths from malarial fevers* 



Number of deaths from non-malarial fevers 

 Number of deaths wrongly reported under '* fever " 

 Doubtful or unascertained 



1,104 

 318 

 368 

 314 

 104 



It appears from this table that nearly one-third of the cases re- 

 turned under the head of ** Fever, " which includes 90 per cent, of all 

 deaths in the Dinajpur District, are incorrectly classed as such, while 

 of the two-thirds correctly returned less than half are due to malarial 

 fevers, including chronic fevers, some of which are probably due to 

 unclassified fevers while a few others may be cases of various chronic 

 diseases, the histories of which were not sufficient to enable them to be 

 accurately diagnosed. 



In the following table the 1,000 cases which were diagnosed are 

 classified according to the most frequent causes of death, the percen- 

 tages from each cause for the different circles examined being shown, 

 while in the last column the percentages of the total number of deaths 

 from each cause is entered : — 



Table II. 



















Percentage 





Dinaj- 



Balur- 



Porsa. 



Chura- 



Bir- 



Ranisan- 



Thakur- 



of total 





pur. 



ghat. 



man. 



ganj. 



kail. 



gaon. 



cases diag- 



















nosed. 



« Thana fever rate 



4406 



29-99 



2905 



3893 



43-43 



47-21 



41-67 





per thousand 



















Malarial, acute 



17-5 



14-7 



16-25 



113 



14-58 



5-3 



12-0 



13-3 



Ditto chronic 



240 



160 



18-75 



18-6 



16-7 



17-3 



15-5 



18-5 



Pneumonia 



186 



21-3 



.11-25 



118 



277 



22-0 



28-0 



21-7 



Phthisis 



5-5 



6-7 



10-0 



80 



83 



13-3 



10-0 



9-0 



Bronchitis 



38 



2-0 



125 



1-6 



1-4 



13 



30 



2-3 



Diarrhoea 



44 



100 



11-25 



121 



10-4 



13-3 



90 



10-2 



Dy sen try 



38 



7-3 



3-75 



11-3 



55 



73 



3-5 



61 



Enteric 



... 



2-0 



3-75 



16 



14 



0-8 



35 



1-8 



Born feeble 



15*8 



107 



l09 



10 5 



35 



11-3 



8-0 



10-4 



Other causes ... 



6-6 



8-7 



5-0 



8-8 



76 



4-8 



50 



6-7 



Not diagnosed ... 



... 



0-6 



8-75 



48 



3-9 



3-3 



2-5 



... 



Total cases 



183 



150 



80 



124 



144 



150 



200 



100-0 



* Chronic cases many of which were doubtless due to the parasite recently de- 

 scribed by Majors Leishman and Donovan are included under this heading. 



