44 Report of the Leprosy Commission : Table II-continued. To show the Changes in the Number of Lepers of the Districts which contain the largest Porportion of Lepers according to the three Censuses. PRESIDENCY. DISTRICT. PROPORTION OF LEPERS PER 10,000 IN REMARKS. 1st Census. 2nd Census. 3rd Census. Madras AND Burma. Amherst 14.7 4.5 2.5 Bassein 12.3 10.8 8.4 Chingleput 6.1 10.0 6.0 Madras City 10.5 10.7 7.6 Northern Ara- kan 28.4 16 5 28.0 Rangoon Town 10.5 6.0 3.7 Shwegyin 17.6 7.9 4.8 Thayetmyo 10 8 6.4 6.5 Toungoo 31.5 7.9 5.9 Bombay Ahmednagar 14.0 10 1 7 8 Belgaum 10.0(5.1) 3.3 3.3 Only in Belgaum, Panch Mahals, Kurrachee, and Hyderabad distinction was drawn in 1872 between "white" and "black" leprosy, so that the ratios given in the first column are too high. The figure in brackets signifies the ratio of true lepers for Belgaum. In 1881 again it appears probable that in Khandesh and one or two other districts of the Deccan and Konkan Divisions cases of white leprosy have been included with the true disease. Dharwar 11.6 1.8 2.0 Khandesh 14.8 14.1 11.6 Kolaba 12.6 11.3 9.1 Poona 12.0 12.0 10.0 Ratnagiri 12.1 9.3 9.7 Satara 11.8 11.0 12.1 Sholapur 11.9 6.8 8.0 In Table II some of those districts are given in which leprosy is most prevalent, and such tracts of the country have been selected which in any one census showed a proportion of at least one in thousand. By also noting the proportions for