Gazetteer Ludhiana 1888

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1(Panjab Gazottoor,

2x CHAP. L—THE DISTRICT.

3Chapter 3, A. overy village to one's inquiries as to. whore the Lambardirs aro *ti

4ptar 1, A. bie in ings wi

5Descriptive.

6Health.

7is down with fever), Ludhiana and all the towns anc

8Nillages along the high bank ‘and over the Badha Nila, are not

9potter off In Méchiwara, Bablolpur, Kum, Bhandri, &, it is quite

10part of a man's life to have an attack of fever once in the year. ‘The

11the offocts of other ailments; and it will be found that the dwellers

12in the Bét and along the high bank are much shortly lived

13report of boing frightoned away from Kum by the number of dead

14belies Mong cf for barial rile ho wadeer in camp. In 1878

154 to got a) from tho influence of the malaria by ding even

16appearh to got Oat te mncat healthy portion of te datrct

17iy the south-west corner about Bassian avd tho Jangal villages,

18Bi st Heal rae eee and tho water aaweh parce se

19Pouploot these parts kre generally exempt even from fover, and

20Pijey excellent health, -‘Thedistrict cannot claim any special diseases

21as prevailing, Phthisis and mania aro the most common, Neither

22Tudhtana not any ona of the othor towne has suffered from an opi-

23omic of cholora since that of 1872; and such visitations aro rare.

24‘The provalenoe of ophthalraia has probably boen exaggerated,

25‘Tho Civil Surgeon writes : "Tho hie dieasos of tho Ludhi-

26‘inn district aro due to malarious poison, enlargement of tho spleen

27tad anwmia being vory provalont, Palonury consumption is very

28‘common in the town of Ludhiana, and although it pri all classes,

29the foreign colonies located here are the principal victims, wis., the

30Kashmiris and Pathins, ‘The disease amongst the Kashmiris is

31certainly intensified by their employment in shawl-weaving, although

32Ghetvat cause must bo attributed to tho climate. chiclly, which doea

33hot agroe with the people of more temperate regions. ‘There is no

34Undemie disease peculinr to the district, the eatne diseases. prevailing

35os in other parts ofthe Punjab namely, fevers, pneumonia which i

36een pen ad ais fe bol dpwntary wa ar

37‘Tables Nos, XI, XIA, XIB, ond XLIV give annual and

38snthly eats, ofthe ‘and deaths for the district and for its

39towns during tho Inst five years ; while tho birth and donth rates

40‘ince 1868, sofa a3 availablo, will be found at pago 46 for the general

41Population, and in Chapter VE-under, the hends of the peter laygs

42Towns of the district. ‘Table No, XII shows the number of insano,

43Dlind, deaf-mutes, nnd lopers as wseertained at the census of 1881 ;

44while Table No. SOCK ‘shows the working of the dispensaries

45ines 1877,

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