DISTRIBUTION OF DISEASE 



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The racial death-rates are: 



Europeans 

 Eurasians 

 Natives . , 



1905. 

 14-36 

 20-89 

 31-84 



1906. 

 14-41 

 26-99 

 41-39 



The year 1905 seems to have been unusually healthy; only 588,394 natives 

 died, as compared with 1,318,783 in 1900. 



The principal cause of death was plague, which accounted for 71,363, or 

 12-13 per cent., in 1905, as compared with 223,957, or 29-28 per cent., in 1904. 



The plague deaths in Bombay for the ten years 1 896-1905 are as follows: — 



1895 



1897 

 1898 

 1899 

 1900 

 1901 

 1902 

 1903 

 1904 

 1905 



Total , 



The population in 1901 was: — 



European (exclusive of cantonments) 



Eurasian 



Native 



2,086 

 46,944 

 86,191 

 96,596 

 33.196 

 128,259 

 184,752 

 281,269 



223,957 

 71.363 



1,154.613 



18,804 



6,557 

 5,481,362 



The above figures will thus give the reader somj idea ot the mortality 

 caused by the plague in India. 



The next important cause of death is cholera : — 



i»96 

 1897 

 1898 

 1899 

 1900 

 1 90 1 

 1902 

 1903 

 1904 

 1905 



35,404 

 57.109 

 4.368 



8,579^ 

 163,889 

 13,600 

 3.229 

 1,825 

 13.156 

 5.396 



The general term ' fever ' causes a mean of 310,420 deaths in the six years 

 1900-1905; most of this is supposed to be malaria. 



The simplest way to show the Bombay death-rate is in the ratio per 1,000 

 inhabtiants: — , 



Cholera . . . . 



Smallpox . . . . 



Plague 

 Fevers 



Dysentery and diarrhoea 

 Injuries . . . r 



Other causes 



Total 



2-1 I 

 0-26 



9-i8 



17*43 

 4-90 

 0-39 



12-12 

 46-39 



Respiratory disease in 1904 caused 3-22, and in 1905 2-95, deaths per 1,000 

 of the populatoin. 



The Bombay death-rate indicates clearly the incidence of cholera, plague, 

 and fevers. In many parts of India — e.g., Madras — kala-azar is an important 



