Identifier: censusofindiav1pt1indi (find matches)
Title: Census of India, 1911 ..
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: India. Census Commissioner
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Publisher: Calcutta : Superintendent government printing, India (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ki h mE*«(iii COMPARISON WITH 1891. 355 and age Manblium in Bihar and Orissa. In all these districts there are at least 13 lepersin every 10,000 of the population. As pointed out in the last Census Reportthe physical and climatic characteristics of the tracts where leprosy is mostprevalent differ g-reatly. In sonic of these tracts the climate is dry and therainfall light, while others have a damp climate with a heavy rainfall. Someof them are alluvial river valleys, while others have a lateritc or rocky soil.Some are low-lying plains, others are slightly elevated, and others again are inmountainous country. The races who inhabit these areas also vary greatly,and they subsist on different kinds of food. 462. According to the returns, the proportion of female, is barely one-third Distrtbuuon by ithat of male, lepers. The great majority of those who live by begging are males,and in the leper asylums of Bengal and Bihar and Orissa males are twice asnumerous as females. It is possible, th

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