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15. Table of deaths in the principal towns :→→
(a) Deaths in Georgetown.
Town.
District Population
where situate.
of town."
January.
February,
March.
April.
Total Deaths.
GEORGETOWN.
Ward.
1. Kingston
2. North Cummings-
burg (western half)
3. North Cummings-
burg (eastern half)
4. South Cummings-
burg (Western half)
5. South Cummings-
burg (eastern balf)
6. Rabbatown
7. Lacytown
8. Newtown
9. Stabroek
10. Werkantet
11. Charlestowa
12. Bourda
13. Alberttown 14. Queenstown
ENVIRONS.
The Lodge ...
Albouystown
HOSPITAL Town patients Country patients
Alms House
Orphan Asylum Jail
Shipping, etc.
Total ...
7
At the mouth and on the eastern bank of the River Demerara.
54,515*
to
6
co
8
8
3
67
3
3
2
3
6
<
1
3
එය
3 7 4
3
or
4 3
2
2
2
I
August
September.
October.
November.
December.
-
T
Totals.
2
7 3
4
60
16. Rainfall during the year :---
January
February March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
Konth.
November
1
15
2 2
3
18.
December
5
3 8
50
Total ...
4 2
4 3
1
1
1
3
2
17
lala
56
B
104
8
2
15
1
1
18
12 22
10
14
19 12 206
12
19
9
4
8
10
106
12
17
8 6 12
9
5
96
•
61
8 1 9
33
3
4
3 5
3
0
618 | 15
5
9
54
39 52
49 33
88
48
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3881-1
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3
200
O 19
co
105
2
-
|
9
10
63
41 54
88 27
20 23
43
44 50
30 29
82 24
51
37 41
555
488
41
32
38
39
41
2.5
27
GRAD
985111
1
F801
២ទង | | |
400
“ខ្ញុំ
8581-1
8=3111
226 221 195 169 182 182 163 179 164 194 202 226 2,305
(b) New Amsterdam and environs.
District
Town.
where
Popolation
situate.
of town t
NEW AMSTERDAM.
Smyth Town
Queenstown Stauleytown
HOSPITAL Town patients Country patients Lunatic Asylum Jail
Shipping, etc.
Karvinons.
* Winkle Village
Total ...
January.
February.
March.
8
** | 05
On eastern bank and five miles from the mouth of Berbloe River.
T
8,4701
11-80
8
Total Deaths.
- | -
- 1
* | |
11
13
19
7
5
46
11005000
6
1
30
30
34
1
11000
38
||aao
127
22
34||
1
12
1 1 co
| | co
- | co
August.
September.
October.
November.
December.
Totals.
101 |
10 13 2
13
17 11
11-28
1
A
6
7
33 39
11
T
265
11-00
3
19
"A" ||
4
3
T
T
110
11400
61
27
151
គ្នន | |
3
3
179
Where Observed,
District.
Rainfall.
Botanic Gardens
Georgetown
31
1
"
1.79 inches. 2.46 It
2-34 21
35
31
4-22
1)
事
11
2
18-37
1
"
15
1)
9-25 "
19
23
>
11
22
5:37 **
4:40
"
"1
31
17
*
11
5.18 4.80
11
**
12
$1
4.81
1
+3
E
6 50
""
"
69.49
11
17. Additional information to be given, if possible, on the following points:
(a) For the whole Colony, the Mosquito Ordinance No. 19 of 1910.
For the city of Georgetown, in addition, by-laws as to screening of
vats, 1907.
For the town of New Amsterdam, in addition, by-laws as to the
screening of vata, 1915.
Many hundreds of notices, etc., during the year.
(b) On the sugar estates, over 10,000. About 5 per cent. to 7 per cent.
enlarged.
In the village schools, about 7,500.
In the healthier areas, 5 per cent. to 10 per cent. enlarged; in the more unhealthy districts, 20 per cent. to 40 per cent. enlarged.
No case of kala-azar has ever been recorded in this Colony.
(c) No special examination this year. Examinations carried out in the public hospital, Georgetown, in 1896, and again in 1907, show Those that about 13 per cent. of those admitted are infected. most affected are the Portuguese and mixed races.
The children of the Orphan Asylum were examined in 1911 and again in 1914. On each occasion just over 40 per cent. were found affected.
In the general country districts the percentage of infection is
probably very much less than in the city of Georgetown.
Nil.
Impossible to state.
2,802 ozs. sold for $896.57 by the Government post offices.
2,256 ozs. distributed free by the Government to children in schools.
49,791 ozs. distributed free by the estates proprietors to all labourers
and children on the estates.
In 106 schools out of 227.
Careful drainage of residential areas and removal of all mosquito-
breeding pools.
Screening of all water receptacles. Clearance of all bush. Careful
These measures
apply
and regular distribution of quinine. equally to free as well as indentured immigrants.
(1) Tenement by-laws applicable to the city of Georgetown are being These relate mainly to cleanliness and gradually enforced. ventilation.
Specially crowded areas in the country districts are being dealt with
and buildings gradually being weeded out.
General and steady decrease of malaria during the past three years.
(*) Nil.
24th August, 1915.
25
29
33 367
0 2
K. S. WISE.
*Census 1911, 58,176.
+ Census 1911, 8,908.
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