REPORT

                                                            ON

SANITATION, DISPENSARIES, AND JAILS IN
                  RAJPUTANA FOR 1918

                                                      AND ON

            VACCINATION FOR THE YEAR 1918-19.

      SECTION I.—SANITATION AND VACCINATION.
METEOROLOGY AND ITS RELATION TO FOOD SUPPLY.

Rainfull in Ajmer.

1. During the year under report 5.88 inches of rain were registered in
Ajmer against 48.30 inches in 1917, the
average for the previous six years being
2201. The rainfall during the Monsoon season from June to September, was
only 5.63 inches as compared with 19.83 inches during the Monsoon of 1917,
showing a decrease of 14.20 inches. Although it did not provide sufficient
water in all the tanks and wells throughout the district, on the whole there was
an ample water supply on account of the heavy rainfall in 1917.

Rainfall in Native States.

2. The rainfall recorded in Rajputana was unusually deficient owing to
which the Khariff crops were a complete
failure and the Rabi crops were also
poor ; scarcity of fodder prevailed throughout the province. There was no rain
in Jaisalmer during the year under report.

            VITAL STATISTICS, BIRTHS AND DEATHS.

Births in Ajmer-Merwara.

3. According to Birth returns 13,214 births were registered in 1918,
against 18,455 in the previous year, a
decrease of 5,241.

4.  Of the total births registered 7,185 were males and 6,029 females. The
birth rate was 26.35 per mille of population against 36.81 per mille in 1917.
The percentage of male to female births was 119.17 as compared with 111.10
in the previous year.

5.  The death rate exceeded the birth rate by 88.43 per mille against 66.15
in the previous year.

Deaths in Ajmer-Merwara.

6.  The total number of deaths registered in this Division was 57,553 in
1918 against 51,623 in 1917 an increase
of 5,930. This increase was due to a
severe epidemic of Influenza. The death rate per mille of population was
11478 as compared with 102.96 in 1917.

7.  The mortality among children under five years of age was 19 per cent.
of the total deaths against 41 per cent. in the previous year. 47,803 deaths
from " Fevers " were reported against 34,300 in 1917 an increase of 13,603,
due chiefly to the out-break of Influenza.

                  NOTE ON INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

8.  The epidemic of Influenza occurred in October and November affect-
ing the whole of Rajputana.

9.  Accurate statistics of the number of deaths in Native States are not
available; the mortality was very large.

All the Native States adopted relief measures to deal with the epidemic.