Buddhiprabha 1916 10 11 12 SrNo 07 08 09

SR No.: 522090
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Adhyatma Gyan Prasarak Mandal
Publisher: Adhyatma Gyan Prasarak Mandal
Publication Year: 1916
Total Pages: 100
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Buddhiprabha, & India
File Size: 2 MB

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tant question has not met with that sympathetic consideration among the wealthy Jains residing in Bombay as it deserves. Bombay the Urbs Prima in Indis, has over twenty thousand Jain residents. The first step towarıls the moral and social welfare of a community is necessarily the housing problem for its humbler classes without which it is futile to preach sanitation and look for any material advancement, Cheap and Sanitary dwellings, besides appreciably diminishing the high percentage of cleath mate, sliould tend to lighten the burden of living which is becoming dearer and dearer as time passes, as a great portion of the income is spent for rents, which might have been possibly sived to meet unsorescen difficulties such as sickness &c. It must be recognised that plague, cholera, consumption and a host of other diseases are directly the outcome of insanitary lwellings and surroundings. The following statistical figures of the mortality returas from the Annual Report of the Health Department of the Bosnbay Municipalty for the ycar ending 31st March 1916 show how frightful and terrible is the cath rate among Jains in the City of Bombay as compared with that of other communities and that for the whole City of Bonibay which is 24,17 per thousand in the year under reference:--
Population.
Total No. of deaths.
% of (leath rato per TO0O.
of death rate per 1000 from plague.
of Infant mortality per 1000.
Race.
2.50
Jains ... ...
20450 890 +3.49
752.20 Brahmins ...! 53636 972 IS.IL
.48 i
535.58 Parsees 50931' 959 18.SI
.13 153.28 Mahome
.79 dans – 179346 5531 | 303.83 1
335.61 The Jain community is blessed with some wealthiest men in its fold and is it to their credit not to come to the rescue of their humbler brethern when the clarion voice of duty bids them to aid those that are in need? The Honorary Secretary of the Jain Association of India, speaking on the low rented sanitary