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JAINA GAZETTE.
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numbering fifty-four thousand had 23 69% of deaths per 1,000. Parsis, however, who number a little above fifty thousand in all had 24-21% of deaths per 1,000, while Mahomedans who number about one lac and seventy-nine thousand had 45-37% of deaths per 1,000.
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Jains
Brahmins
Parsis
Caste.
Mahomedans
Jains
Caste.
Brahmins
Parsis
STATEMENT No. (4).
Mahomedans
:
...
:
Population.
9.6
STATEMENT No. (5).
:
20,460
12.7
53,656 2.87
50,931 1.76
179,316 2.90
Percentage of death-rate per 1,000 through plague during the year
1912.
The above figures show the highest percentage of death-rate per 1,000 through plague among Jains as compared with other communities. This appears to be due to our lack of knowledge as to how a plague case should be nursed, or to our negligence, or want of precautionary measures.
Population.
1911.
20,460
53,656
50,931
179,346
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5.91
1.36
1911.
66
1.51
1913.
9-33
2.14
·05
1.65
Percentage of Infant Mortality per 1,000 of births during the year
1912.
1913.
953.2 1,201·4
792.5
638.2 632.8
600.4
186.2
206.2
188.1
388.5
421.6 369.5
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