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degree of instruction and control. Thus some thauas show no cases at 

 all returned under the head of diarrhoea and dysentery, while ouly 70 

 deaths were returned under this head in the whole district in 1903. The 

 numbers under " Other diseases " are always very much below the mark, 

 only 295 cases having been shown in 1903. Whether the slight improve- 

 ment which might be expected to result in from some elementary in- 

 structions being issued to the chaukidars is worth the trouble of undertak- 

 ing must be left to tlie Sanitary Commissioner to decide, for in no case 

 can anything approaching a reasonable degree of accuracy be expected 

 from the present agency, while it is not easy to see how any other agency 

 eould be employed except at a prohibitive cost. The question whether 

 many deaths escape registration my enquiry was not best fitted ta 

 ascertain, but on several occasions after going through the list of deaths 

 returned I enquired for other deaths, but, as a rule, those which were 

 mentioned by the villagers belonged to other years, and I came across 

 very few deaths which had not been reported. The introduction of the 

 diiffadari system several years ago appears to have produced a consider- 

 able improvement in this respect, and as far as I can make out the total 

 death-rates are now fairly accurate, although possibly somewhat below 

 the mark in the southernmost thanas. 



Monthly Disteibution and Age Incidence of the Principal Diseases* 



The age and date of death of each case was noted, and the analysis 



of these data has presented some points of interest and importance, which 



can best be shown in tables illustrating these data in regard to the chief 



causes of deaths returned as "fever." 



Table IV 



. — Monthly 



Incidence of Diseases. 











.2.2 



3 



w 



.^ 



i 





6 



0) 







ce p 



S 





2 



CO 



u 



'5 





1 



c 



c2 

 c 



u 

 o 

 pa 



January 

 February 



... 



16 

 11 



27 



27 



8 

 6 



4 



10 

 8 



2 



4 



"*1 



5 

 10 



March 





20 



8 



10 



4 



9 



4 



6 



8 



April 



7 



17 



19 



5 



2 



12 



11 



2 



11 



May 

 June 



2 



11 



17 



8 



2 



10 



1 



2 



2 



9 



13 



16 



7 



1 



6 



5 



1 



3 



July 



17 



14 



10 



3 



1 



6 



2 



1 



2 



August 



17 



13 



8 



2 



2 



5 



8 



... 



7 



September 



19 



11 



6 



6 





5 



2 





9 



October 



22 



15 



20 



4 



2 



5 



4 



... 



13 



November 



24 



20 



28 



14 



2 



17 



3 



2 



16 



December 



16 



24 



31 



17 



3 



9 



15 



3 



18 



Total ... 



133 



185 



217 



yo 



23 



102 



61 



18 



104 



