'BOMBAY – 1939-40. A Review of the Administration of the Province'

Annual administration report of the Bombay Province, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1939-40. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai] in 1941. The report is divided into three parts: Part I contains a report 'SUMMARY' (ff 6-14); Part II (ff 15-82) comprises chapters I-XI; the third part (ff 83-84) comprises Appendices in two sections. PART II comprises the following:. 'CHAPTER I. ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND' (ff 15-16), consisting of: Land Records; Wards and other Estates; Gujarat Talukdars' Act; Court of Wards Act; 'CHAPTER II. LAW AND JUSTICE (ff 17-25) consisting of: Administration of Justice; Civil and Criminal Justice; Registrations; Joint Stock Companies; 'CHAPTER III. POLICE AND CRIME' (ff 25-32) consisting of: Police; Mofussil and Railway Police; Bombay City Police; Village Police; Motor Vehicles; Government Workhouses; Jails: Borstal School; Dharwar, and the Bombay Province Probation and After-care Association; Juvenile Branch Administration; Criminal Tribes; 'CHAPTER IV. AGRICULTURE, WEATHER AND CROPS' (ff 32-48), consisting of: Agriculture and Crops; Department of Agriculture; Rural Development; Advances to Cultivators; Note on the Weather; Prices; Retail Prices; Wholesale Prices; Mofussil Labour and Wages; Forest; Co-operative Movement; 'CHAPTER V. TRADE AND COMMERCE' (ff 49-55), consisting of: Industries; Commissioner of Labour; The Factories Act; The Workmen's Compensation Act; Boiler Inspection Department; Sea-borne Trade; 'CHAPTER VI. PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT' (ff 55-58), consisting of: Public Works Administration; Central Workshops Dapuri; Electricity; Communications; Scarcity Works; Water Supply and Drainage Schemes; Railways; Irrigation; 'CHAPTER VII. VITAL STATISITICS AND MEDICAL RELIEF' (ff 58-62), consisting of: Births and Deaths; Pilgrim Centres; Vaccination; Hospitals and Dispensaries; Haffkine Institute; Veterinary; Chemical Analyser; Mental Hospitals [psychiatric hospitals]; Acworth Leper Home [Hospital for persons affected by leprosy or Hansen's Disease], Matunga; Kondhwa Leper Hospital, Poona [Pune]; British Empire Leprosy Relief Association, Bombay Province Branch; Emigration and Immigration; 'CHAPTER VIII. LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT' (ff 63-66), consisting of: Municipalities; Bombay City Municipality; Local Board Administration; 'CHAPTER IX. COLLECTION OF REVENUE AND FINANCIAL REVIEW' (ff 66-74), consisting of: Accounts for 1939-40; Public Works Revenue; Land Revenue; Excise; 'CHAPTER X. INSTRUCTION' (ff 75-78), consisting of: Education; Books and Publications; Royal Asiatic Society, Bombay Branch; Victoria and Albert Museum Bombay; Prince of Wales Museum of Western India Bombay; Lord Reay Industrial Museum Poona; 'CHAPTER XI. MISCELLANEOUS' (ff 79-82), consisting of: Ecclesiastical; The Court of India; The Established Church of Scotland; Stationery and Printing; Government Central Press, Bombay; Yeravda Prison Press, Poona; Government Photozinco Press, Poona; General Miscellaneous; Industrial Housing Scheme; Residential Suburban Schemes; Town Planning and Valuations Department; Military; Archaeology; 'Backward Classes' [used to refer to Dalit people officially designated as Scheduled Castes, Adivasi peoples now officially designated as Scheduled Tribes, and other socially and economically disadvantaged groups]; A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 4-5. 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.

The report contain a table of content listing headings and sub-headings.

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