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JAINA GAZETTE. [December among our Community in the city and island of Bombay, with the earnest hope that the same would make our wealthy men thiok about the sanitary condition of the Jain Residents in Bombay. I shall be gratified to hear if any of our millionaires, Sabhas or constituted bodies, like the Jain Association of India would come forward to remedy the hardships our fellow-brethren are suffering from, in consequence of their very limited means and their forced living in some of the insanitary slums of Bombay.
2. The following calculations, which are based on the population as enumerated at the census of 1911, and obtained from the Annual Reports of the Health Department of the Bombay Municipality, show
(1) Jain Population, Ward by Ward, according to
the census of 1911 in the City and Island of
Bombay, (2) Total number of deaths, (3) Percentage of death-rate per 1,000, (1) Percentage of death-rate per 1,000 through plague, (5) Percentage of Infant Mortality per 1,000, among
Jains as compared with other communities during the last three years in Bombay.
STATEMENT No. (1). Ward No. Population.
965 It will be seen from this statement 4,836 that nearly inore than 66% or 8,700
23rds of the Jain Population
reside in B. & C. Wards, which 1,015
owing to the very high per2,017
centage of density are always 1,252
reported to have higher per
1,325 centage of death-raie in Bombay. Harbour, Railway & Homeless
319 Total 20,460 Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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