44 Report of the Leprosy Commission :
Table II-continued.
To show the Changes in the Number of Lepers of the Districts which
contain the largest Porportion of Lepers according to the three
Censuses.
PRESIDENCY.
DISTRICT.
PROPORTION OF LEPERS PER
10,000 IN
REMARKS.
1st Census.
2nd Census.
3rd Census.
Madras
AND
Burma.

Amherst
14.7
4.5
2.5
Bassein
12.3
10.8
8.4
Chingleput
6.1
10.0
6.0
Madras City
10.5
10.7
7.6
Northern Ara-
kan
28.4
16 5
28.0
Rangoon Town
10.5
6.0
3.7
Shwegyin
17.6
7.9
4.8
Thayetmyo
10 8
6.4
6.5
Toungoo
31.5
7.9
5.9
Bombay
Ahmednagar
14.0
10 1
7 8
Belgaum
10.0(5.1)
3.3
3.3
Only in Belgaum, Panch Mahals, Kurrachee, and Hyderabad distinction was drawn in 1872 between "white" and "black" leprosy, so that the ratios given in
the first column are too
high. The figure in
brackets signifies the
ratio of true lepers for
Belgaum. In 1881 again
it appears probable that
in Khandesh and one or
two other districts of
the Deccan and Konkan
Divisions cases of white
leprosy have been included with the true
disease.
Dharwar
11.6
1.8
2.0
Khandesh
14.8
14.1
11.6
Kolaba
12.6
11.3
9.1
Poona
12.0
12.0
10.0
Ratnagiri
12.1
9.3
9.7
Satara
11.8
11.0
12.1
Sholapur
11.9
6.8
8.0
In Table II some of those districts are given in which
leprosy is most prevalent, and such tracts of the country have
been selected which in any one census showed a proportion of
at least one in thousand. By also noting the proportions for