Sickness and Infirmity in Urban and Rural Districts, 1901.,TABLE VIII.—Showing the Number and Proportion in every 10000 living of Persons, Males and Females, suffering from each description of Infirmity in the State, in Urban, and in Rural Districts.

Nature of Infirmity.	Numerical.									Proportion per 10000 living.
	The State.			Urban Districts.			Rural Districts.			The State.			Urban Districts.			Rural Districts.
	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.
Total	3,432	1,993	1,439	941	549	392	2,491	1,444	1,047	199.00	222.40	173.70	220.50	272.60	173.95	191.95	207.80	173.56
Sickness	1,127	618	509	367	211	156	760	407	353	65.36	68.96	71.22	86.00	104.80	69.22	58.55	58.57	58.52
Accident	277	238	39	85	74	11	192	164	28	16.06	26.56	4.70	20.33	36.74	4.88	14.79	23.60	4.64
Deaf and Dumb	75	41	34	12	5	7	63	36	27	4.34	4.57	4.10	2.86	2.48	3.10	4.85	5.18	4.47
Deaf only	193	99	94	36	14	22	157	85	72	11.19	11.05	11.34	8.60	6.95	9.76	12.09	12.25	11.93
Blind	173	97	76	54	30	24	119	67	52	10.03	10.82	9.17	12.91	14.89	10.65	9.16	9.64	8.62
Insane	421	225	196	5	2	3	416	223	193	24.41	25.11	23.66	1.19	0.99	1.33	32.05	32.09	32.00
Idiotic	19	6	13	3	2	1	16	4	12	1.10	0.66	1.56	0.71	0.99	0.44	1.23	0.57	1.98
Epileptic	14	5	9	2	1	1	12	4	8	0.81	0.55	1.08	0.47	0.49	0.44	0.92	0.57	1.32
Paralytic	52	32	20	13	13		39	19	20	3.01	3.57	2.41	3.10	6.45		3.00	2.73	3.30
Crippled	43	28	15	20	6	14	23	22	1	2.49	3.12	1.81	4.78	2.97	6.21	1.77	3.16	0.16
Lost a Limb	19	18	1	4	3	1	15	15		1.10	2.00	0.12	0.95	1.48	0.44	1.15	2.15
Lost sight of one Eye	6	6		3	3		3	3		0.34	0.66		0.71	1.48		0.23	0.43
Other Infirmities	1,013	580	433	337	185	152	676	395	281	58.74	64.76	52.27	80.58	91.86	67.46	52.08	56.84	46.49