INDIAN FAMINES - Institute for Social and Economic Change

100 FINANCI.AL AND OTHER RESULTS
set ourselves a. number of questions. One is
-if .38 of a shilling expended gives a. com·
paratively satisfactory result, as exhibited in
No. X. famiue, what comparative results oc·
curred in the expenditure of any other of the
given famines 1 For instance, let us take No.
VII. famine, as it had a. minimum cost of
relief per head of population. In working
out the question of mortality connected herewith-viz.,
if .38 of a shilling gives i per cent
mortality, what mortality would .09 of a
shilling give 1-we find the expenditure of
No. X. famine to be four times greater than
that of No. VII., while the mortality of the
latter was only three times greater than that
of the former; the conclusion from which is,
that No. VII., in an economical point of view,
was better managed than No. X., and we can
only lament that more money was not spent
in an equally judicious way, iu order that a
greater number of the people might have survived.
With the same data we are enabled to
inquire into like results in any other famine.
In doing so, we find that not only was much
less money spent, but that it was by no means