IOR/V/10/316/2

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 1917-18. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai], in 1919.

The report is divided into two parts. Part I comprises a report ‘SUMMARY’ (ff 82-87).

PART II (ff 88-146) comprises the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:

• ‘CHAPTER I. – PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL. TRIBUTARY STATES.’ (ff 88-96), consisting of: I. North Gujarát; II. South Gujarát; III. North Konkan; IV. South Konkan; V. The Deccan; VI. Kolhápur and Southern Marátha Country States; VII. Sind [Sindh]; VIII. Aden; IX. Condition of the People
• ‘CHAPTER II. – ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND.’ (ff 97-100), consisting of: 1. Surveys; 2. Settlements; 3. Waste Lands; 4. Land Records; 5. Wards’ and other Estates; 6. Revenue and Rent-paying Classes
• ‘CHAPTER III. – PROTECTION.’ (ff 100-107), consisting of: 1. Course of Legislation; 2. Police; 3. Wild Animals and Venomous Snakes; 4. Chemical Analysis; 5. Criminal Justice; 6. Prisons – Civil and Criminal; 7. Civil Justice; 8. Registration; 9. Local Board Administration; 10. Municipal Administration; 11. Military (Indian Defence Force); 12. Marine.
• ‘CHAPTER IV. – PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.’ (ff 108-132), consisting of: 1. Agriculture; 2. Weather and Crops; 3. Co-operative Societies; 4. Horticulture; 5. Forests; 6. Mines and Quarries; 7. Power Industries and Handicrafts; 8. Trade; 9. Public Works; 10. Railways; 11. Tramways
• ‘CHAPTER V. – FINANCIAL.’ (ff 133-139), consisting of: 1. Financial Review, 1917-18; 2. Land Revenue; 3. Irrigation Revenue; 4. Public Works Revenue; 5. Customs; 6. Salt; 7. Excise; 8. Cotton Duties Act; 9. Stamps; 10. Income Tax; 11. Local Funds
• ‘CHAPTER VI. – VITAL STATISTICS AND MEDICAL RELIEF.’ (ff 140-142), consisting of: 1. Births and Deaths; 2. Emigration and Immigration; 3. Medical Relief; 4. Epidemic Diseases; 5. Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory; 6. Lunatic Asylums [psychiatric hospitals]; 7. Acworth Leper Asylum [hospital for people affected by leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease], Matunga; 8. Sanitation; 9. Vaccination; 10. Veterinary
• ‘CHAPTER VII. – INSTRUCTION.’ (ff 142-144), consisting of: 1. Education; 2. Literature and the Press; 3. Arts and Sciences
• ‘CHAPTER VIII. – ARCHEAOLOGY.’ (f 144), consisting of: Archaeological Survey of India, Western Circle
• ‘CHAPTER IX. – MISCELLANEOUS.’ (ff 145-146), consisting of: 1. Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; 2. Stationary; 3. Printing; 4. General Miscellaneous.

The report includes the following photographs:

• ‘9. – Compound Synchronous Motor Dynamo and Alternator. (In Laboratory of Electrical Engineer to Government.)’ (f 121)
• ‘1. – Front view of the Sir Cowasji Jehangir Hall at the Royal Institute of Science, Bombay.’ (f 123)
• ‘2. – Railway Police Chawls at Dadar.’ (f 123)
• ‘5. – Eye Hospital, Karachi – North West View.’ (f 125)
• ‘6. – New Custom House, Karachi – North View.’ (f 125)
• ‘7. – Pimpalgaon Dam – Southside view of the dam and waste weir including outlet tower. (Ahmednagar Water Supply.)’ (f 127)
• ‘8. – Visapur Dam – Portion of Dam at the Eastside of the River.’ (f 127)
• ‘3. Gangway in connection with the Sea Wall on the Kennedy Sea Face, Bombay.’ (128v)
• ‘4. – Sea Wall on the Kennedy Sea Face, Bombay’ (f 128v).

A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folio 81. In a small number of instances, there are discrepancies in the spelling, phrasing or inclusion of sub-headings between the table of contents and the body of the report. In these cases, the sub-heading as it appears in the body of the report is included above.