INDIA'S
OCTOBER THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,
POPULATION STILL £1,000,000 BID FOR
INCREASING RAPIDLY
MAY BE 400 MILLION
IN TWO YEARS
Health
Problems
develop-
ganization of economic ment. Agricultural, irrigation and veteri
and the application nory research of their results to the problems of the country are gradually being ex- tended both at the Centre and in the provinces, and these efforts are already bearing fruit.
Discussed igation
In Official Report
India's population is increasing by rapid strides. The Public Health Commissioner with the Government of India, Col. A. J. H. Russell, in his latest annual report estimates that by 1941 the population is likely to reach a figure approximating 400,000,000.
The resources of India are immense, observes Col. Russell, but they will become available for the betterment of the people by a well-planned organi- sation of economic development.
Agricultural research,-for-exam- ple, has within recent years covered a wide field, such as the protection of crops from pesis and diseases, and fertilizers, soll ex- oven more amination, and, what is important, the question of co-ordina tion of agricultural and nutritional studies for the improvement of hu man nutrition is now being actively pursued.
· NUTRITION STUDIES Tho nutritional studies, which out during the have been carried past two or three years, have been mainly concerned with (1) dietetic surveys
in order to ascertain the actual state of nutrition of the people;
(it) and
analyses of common In- dian foodstuffs for the purposo de- value, (1) ex- termining
nutritional": perimental work in controlled in stitutions in India for the discovery of suitable cheep methods of im
on, and (iv) training nutrition, proving of medical and pubile health person- nel in general nutrition work and in propaganda on
the
carrying out
of
Referring to the measures for the improvement of public health in the country, the report stresses the need for the villagers' active co-operation with the Govern-theim sent need at present ap-
subject.
be the formulation of ment and non-official agencies in their efforts for the
methods by which the production reorganisation of rural life.
of
foods" can to "protective greatly increased and their con- sumption encouraged. The genera
Malnutrition's Effects On
The Mass Of The People
Since 1931, when the last census tunce.
was
In 1030 the number of births Was
nearly 280.000 higher than that for 1035.
pears to
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VIDIN
AIR BASE
AT PORTSMOUTH
By 'William Courtenay
A London Anancial group is pre- pared to spend up to £1,000,000 building the world's biggest and most luxurious combined marine and landplane Empire air base at Ports. mouth.
Recently the Portsmouth Corpora- recommendation tion agreed to a from its Docks and Airport Com- mitice to open negotiations with this group.
So far strict secrecy is being pre- served over their identity, but Coun- ciller Albert Johnson, chairman of the Docks and Airport Committee, who has tried for 12 years to get the Empire air base at Langstone Har bour, ci
and has acted as intermediary in introducing the group to the council, said:
The scheme means a marine baso with mile-long runways in several directions as required by the Air Ministry for a first-class air bare. There will also be the landplane base on Farlington Marshes, with hangars, administration buildings, alipway and connection to the rail-
line. This will bring Imperial Airwaya' new offices at Victoria within about an hour and a half run of the new atation on the site which could be bullt. The line is already electri-
way
fed
*
The group are to moct the Ports- mouth Council to settle details. All arrangements have been made to over the land at Farlington, owned by the Corporation, and the area required for the harbour base.
The existing municipal airport would also be taken over and used for two years as an air liner land- plane base until the combined baso was ready.
FOG.CLEAR HARBOUR
a
Since the Corporation turned down' scheme for the development of a big airport by a narrow majority, it has been announced that Southamp- ton would become the official Empire air base.
An
general poverty of the Indian masses makes it essential to explore every avaliable method, which will kelp to improve the present state of malnutrition.
Recent researches in the Nutrition
Laboratories in Research
Coonoor Laken (says the report just! These include the low standard of have shown that, in regard to such issued), India has comparatively re-ufe of the majority of the people, an essential article of diet as milk, mained free from violent outbreaks the large additions to numbers sub
substitutes such as calcium lactale, of epidemic diseases and, during the amounting at present to about 35 to
of view
A survey has shown that on more point of
bo well of cost may same period, the annual balance of 40 millions per decade, the high toll may be employed, which from the
than 70 days last year bad weather means of births over deaths has been con- of life and suffering taken annually within the
a very large
conditions prevailed at Southampton of the progressive by epidemic and other preventable sectio
community. the sistently favourable to
as against only about 30 at Ports- diseases, and lastly the question of
for child costing increase of population.
amount sufficient
mouth. food production..
only half an anna per
Recently Imperial Airways MORE AND BETTER FOOD
VITAMIN EXPRO 10
was forced to land at dying boat Available statistics show thai
Experiments have also shown that
Bembridge through tog. It could a good supply of vitamin A the On the other hand, the number during 1938-37, of the arca culti
de-
not risk landing at Southampton in Lang- of deaths was less by about 200,- vated in British India the net area ficiency of which in the Indian diet 009, so that the estimated popula: actually shown
nbout 232
is responsible for much of the pre-log amid a forest of masts.
and malnutrition,
stono Harbour was clear. Lon for 1038 shows an increase of million acres, while the fallow aren valent ili health
Imperial Airways are anxious to about 3,600,000, as compared with was over 40 million acres.
can be had in red palm oil, derived
leave Southampton and operate from of the previous year
Or that
the arca
154 from the fruit of a West African uncultivated
clear base. shipping million acres was culturable waste
palm, stood at about 382,000,000.
een the census of 1931 and other than fallow. nov 155 million at a third of the cost for which purchaseable in the form of cod Between
for culliva- liver ́oll. 1916, the actual increase has neres was not avaliable
tion. The 6.1 per cent.
under food area
Interesting details are also given Assuming the same rate of growth crops was about 217 million acres, in the Report of vital statistics for
201 the year. during the next five years, the in- of which a little more than
The total number of live births re- crease in population during the de-million acres was under other food cennium 1931-41 is, therefore, like crops.
corded in British India during the ly to be something over 11 per cent,
year was nearly 10 million. the rate or the total population nearly 400,-
per mille working out at 35.4, male 000,000.
births over 5,000,000, the number of males born per un
In trying to estimate the possible trend of events in India, considera- tion must be given to a number of factors all of which are of impor
total
Wus
The resources of India are im-
A comparison of these figures with those for 1935 shows that increases were recorded in every province,
they mense, but
will become available for the betterment of the people only by a well-planned or-
dred females being 108,
Mule births outnumbered female births not only in British India as
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The infantile mortality for year for British India was 102 per mille.
Malo infantile deaths were 170.0 per mille and female infantile deaths 153.1, and the still births recorded were 21.2 per mille of live births.
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