MEDICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES

VITAL STATISTICS

As regards births and deaths and infant deaths, table No. 1 shows the position for the years 1951 to 1962. Table No. 2 gives the statistics of deaths in the district due to various diseases from 1951 to 1965.

TABLE No. 1

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND INFANT DEATHS IN THE DISTRICT FROM 1951 TO 1965

Births and deaths

Year

1951

1952

1953

1954

1955

1956

1957

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

Births

32,030

43,124

38,763

36,198

45,805

44,455

42,477

Deaths

21,813

N.A.

25,421

18,930

20,841

19,656

22,629

Infant deaths.

--

--

--

--

--

--

--

TABLE No. 1contd.

Births and deaths

Year

1958

1959

1960

1961

1962

1963

1964

1965

(1)

(9)

(10)

(11)

(12)

(13)

(14)

(15)

(16)

Births

39,663

30,254

42,556

41,827

NA.

47,610

44,521

47,618

Deaths

25,019

18,276

17,074

21,295

NA,

20,144

17,554

16,953

Infant deaths.

--

--

--

5,018

NA.

5,050

4,937

4,629

TABLE No.2

DEATHS DUE TO VARIOUS DISEASES IN THE DISTRICT

Cause of death

Year

1951

1953

1954

1955

1956

1957

1958

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

Cholera

1

1,120

4

78

68

136

305

Small-pox

411

18

66

41

340

49

320

Fever

6,812

6,679

6,167

6,537

5,561

7,230

7,469

Dysentery and diarrhoea.

1,744

3,246

1,829

1,968

1,569

1,607

1,798

Respiratory diseases.

2,057

3,990

2,069

1,747

2,032

2,313

2,489

Other causes

10,788

10,368

8,795

10,470

10,086

11,294

12,629

Total deaths

21,813

25,421

18,930

20,841

19,656

22,629

25,010

TABLE No.2contd.

Cause of death

Year

1959

1960

1961

1962

1963

1964

1965

(1)

(9)

(10)

(11)

(12)

(13)

(14)

(15)

Cholera

--

--

21

--

--

342

6

Small-pox

--

25

79

67

241

32

46

Fever

4,777

5,699

7,439

6,255

6,061

4,482

4,496

Dysentery and diarrhoea.

1,757

1,718

3,386

2,420

1,661

1,446

1,338

Respiratory diseases.

2,466

2,600

4,544

4,442

2,467

2,415

2,400

Other causes

9,276

7,032

5,801

8,760

9,694

8,822

8,617

Total deaths

18,276

17,074

21,270

21,944

20,124

17,539

16,903

There is a considerable increase in the number of in-door and out-door patients treated in hospitals. The district ranked 4th and 9th in the Division and State, respectively, on the basis of number of hospital beds per lakh of population in the year 1962. The following table shows the number of patients treated from the year 1960 to 1965: -

TABLE No. 3

NUMBER OF PATIENTS TREATED FROM 1960 TO 1965.

Distriet / Tahsil

Year

In-door patients treated

Out-door patients treated

Males

Females

Children

Males

Females

Children

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

Jalgaon

1960

50

37

52

20,557

16,315

26,509

1961

860

1,765

117

35,640

24,329

43,703

1963

55

70

40

26,445

18,745

31,053

1964

45

40

17

10,255

7,153

11,593

1965

558

57

96

29,087

25,611

23,025

Malkapur

I960

146

110

60

24,433

14,973

35,433

1961

129

248

197

42,519

29,609

38,361

1963

59

109

56

35,239

19,569

56,793

1964

30

45

22

26,368

20,168

33,452

1965

484

296

119

41,778

25,821

35,841

Khamgaon

1960

3,382

4,059

5,271

35,714

43,177

52,718

1961

575

3,792

247

62,619

45,084

59,475

1963

185

415

265

41,053

49,323

54,150

1964

162

379

238

44,585

52,345

70,347

1965

453

4,446

2,930

59,243

62,623

40,351

Chikhli

1960

1,435

1,153

714

47,338

28,704

49,263

1961

6,808

1,603

912

69,323

51,183

53,897

1963

1,007

2,023

1,105

78,163

40,262

78,107

1964

916

2,407

1,323

72,344

41,639

61,554

1965

2,219

2,122

1,489

98,682

62,258

78,654

Mehkar

1960

69

93

15

29,969

14,811

34,901

1961

194

292

619

57,605

33,633

44,539

1963

42

152

79

55,078

25,554

53,609

1964

67

172

93

38,907

28,971

29,802

1965

115

138

55

41,144

32,226

31,832

District Total

I960

5,057

5,452

6,112

158,011

117,980

198,824

1961

8,566

7,700

2,092

267,706

183,838

239,975

1963

1,348

2,769

1,545

235,978

153,453

273,712

1964

1,220

3,043

1,693

192,459

150,276

206,748

1965

3,829

7,059

4,689

269,934

208,539

209,602

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