HC Deb 22 February 1926 vol 192 cc56-7W
Mr. SCURR

asked the Under-Secretary of State for India the death-rate, adult and infantile, for Howrah for the last five years?

Earl WINTERTON

The latest information is as follows:

The death rates per 1,000 of the population for all ages were as follows:

1919 … … … 55.1
1920 … … … 48.5
1921 … … … 35.3
1922 … … … 29.8
1923 … … … 28.8

The rates of infantile mortality per 1,000 births registered were:

1919 … … … 363.0
1920 … … … 391.0
1921 … … … 284.1
1922 … … … 250.1
1923 … … … 263.9

Mr. SCURR

asked the Under-Secretary of State for India the death-rate, adult and infantile, for Cawnpore and Cantonment for the last five years?

Earl WINTERTON

The latest information available is as follows:

The death rates per mille for all ages were:

Cawnpore City:
1919 … … … 63.60
1920 … … … 60.34
1921 … … … 48.38
1922 … … … 44.53
1923 … … … 49.73

Cawnpore Cantonment:
1919 … … … 31.65
1920 … … … 23.89
1921 … … … 23.79
1922 … … … 15.69
1923 … … … 13.96

The infantile mortality rates in Cawnpore City per 1,000 births registered were:

1920 … … … 551.07
1921 … … … 580.67
1922 … … … 450.87
1923 … … … 495.17
1924 … … … 476.90
The rates for the Cantonment are not available.

Mr. SCURR

asked the Under-Secretary of State for India the death rate, adult and infantile, in the city of Calcutta and suburbs for the last five years?

Earl WINTERTON

The latest information available is as follows:—The death rates per mille for all ages were:

Calcutta (including suburbs):—
1919 … … … … 42.2
1920 … … … … 39.4
1921 … … … … 33.5
1922 … … … … 29.1
1923 … … … … 28.4
Separate figures for the city and suburbs are not available.

The rates of infantile mortality per 1,000 births registered in Calcutta (including suburbs) were:

1919 … … … … 357.0
1920 … … … … 386.0*
1921 … … … … 330.5
1922 … … … … 287.0
1923 … … … … 294.6
* The birth registration system is said to have been defective in this year.