IOR/V/10/283

Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1871-72.

The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:

• ‘PART I. – INTRODUCTORY SUMMARY’ (ff 8-17)
• ‘PART II. – PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, POLITICAL, AND FISCAL.’ (ff 18-97), consisting of: SECTION I. – Physical Geography: 1. Area and Character of Surface 2. Climate; II. – Political Relations with Native States: 1. Native States 2. Foreign Relations; III. – Civil Divisions of British Territory; IV. – Population: 1. Census 2. Emigration; V. – Fiscal: 1. Land Revenue 2. Local Funds 3. Customs, Opium, and Salt 4. Alienated Revenue 5. Miscellaneous Revenue 6. Survey and Settlement
• ‘PART III. – PROTECTION.’ (ff 98-151), consisting of: SECTION I. – Legislative; II. – Judicial: 1. Criminal Justice 2. Civil Justice; III. – Registration; IV. – Prisons; V. – (a). Police (b). Vagrants; VI. – Municipal Administration; VII. – (a). Military (b). Cantonments; VIII. – Marine
• ‘PART IV. – PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.’ (ff 152-228), consisting of: SECTION I. – Finance: 1. Revenue and Expenditure – Budget Estimates 2. Mint 3. Paper Currency; II. – (a). Public Works (b). Irrigation; III. – Railway; IV. – Forests; V. – Agriculture and Stock: 1. General Summary of Agricultural Statistics 2. Cotton 3. Model Farms and Experimental Botany 4. (a). Agricultural Improvements (b). Horse and Cattle breeding 5. Fisheries; VI. – Prices of Produce and Labour; VII. – Mines and Quarries; VIII. – Manufactures; IX. – Trade: 1. Exports and Imports 2. Railway Traffic 3. Fairs 4. Joint Stock Companies 5. Chamber of Commerce
• ‘PART V. – INSTRUCTION.’ (ff 229-243), consisting of: SECTION I. – Ecclesiastical; II. – Public Instruction; III. – Scientific and Literary: 1. Archaeology 2. Scientific Associations or Institutions 3. Museums 4. The Press
• ‘PART VI. – VITAL STATISTICS.’ (ff 244-263), consisting of: SECTION I. – Public Health and Sanitation: 1. General Health 2. Births, Deaths, and Marriages; II. – Hospitals and Dispensaries; III. – Vaccination
• ‘PART VII. – THE POST.’ (ff 264-266).

A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 6-7. There is a discrepancy between how the heading of Part VII appears in the table of contents and the body of the report; the heading as it appears in the body of the report is included above.

Folios 269-336 consist of appendices. There is an index to the appendices on folios 267-268, listing the appendices under the following headings and sub-headings:

• ‘I – STATISTICS OF PHYSICAL, POLITICAL, AND FISCAL GEOGRAPHY.’ (ff 269v-279r), consisting of: I. Climate; II. Civil Divisions of British Territory
• ‘II. – STATISTICS OF PROTECTION.’ (ff 279v-314r), consisting of: A. Civil Justice – Regulation Districts; B. – Criminal Justice – Regulation Districts, Town and Island of Bombay, Sind [Sindh], Aden; C. – Police – Regulation Districts, Sind
• ‘III. – STATISTICS OF PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.’ (ff 314v-322r), consisting of: I. Public Works; II. – Stamps; III – Trade
• ‘IV – STATISTICS OF INSTRUCTION.’ (ff 322v-323r)
• ‘V. – STATISTICS OF HEALTH AND MORTALITY.’ (ff 323v-326r), consisting of: Public Health
• ‘VI. – MISCELLANEOUS.’ (ff 326v-336), consisting of: I. – Municipal Accounts; II. Local Fund Accounts; III. – Joint Stock Companies; IV. – Cotton; V. – Spinning and Weaving Mills.