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 KHE 229 There is one jail in the district, a mud walled erection, built to accommo- date 149 prisoners; the average number of inmates in 1875 was 202. The total number imprisoned during the year was 783 males and 75 females. The average cost of rations during the five years ending 1875 was Rs. 15-3-3 per head, that of hospital charges 61 annas, that of clothing Re. 1-9-6; the total cost, including establishment, was Rs. 47-7-0. The average earnings per head of prisoners sentenced to labour were Rs. 7 in 1875, the actual cash earnings also Rs. 7. The manufactures are coarse cotton cloth, towels, paper, oil-pressing, and rug-weaving. The official returns of the occupa- tions and ages of the prisoners in the jails of this province are too untrust- worthy to bo quoted. For instance, in Hardoi 144 prisoners are repre- sented as men of property :* in Kheri, an adjoining and similar district, not one; in Gonda there are stated to be 37 prisoners; above 60 in Bahraich; and Bara Banki not one. There is nothing noteworthy about the district crime except that is increasing rapidly. See table. It is doubtful, however, if all the crime is reported Crime statistics for Kheri district. Cases reported. Cases investigated. Cases convicted. 1887 1868 1869 1970 1871 1872 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1887 1888 1889 1870 1871 1872 13 9 75 7 20 181 13 916 720 6 10 6 14 4 4 11 Murders and at 13 tempta. Culpable homi 3 cide. 31 4 31 5 8 31 4 81 5. 4 4 1 2 HUI Dacoity 1 2 2.1 1 +46 13 18 Robbery 5 身 $ 3 7 3 2 6 3) 7 31 2 3) 1 a 21 8 Rioting and un- 10 144 18! 13! 14 10 10 14 16 13 14 10 9 10 1211 lawful assembly. Theft by house- 922 1,001 1,697 1,510 1,221 1,311 376 477 443 693 413 443 142 132 158 133 137 20 breaking or hopise-trespass. Theft, simple .743 942) 1,517 1,425 1,125 1,600 366 737 688 491 819 186 249 347 229 173 38 Theft of cattle... 90 80 83 90 107 146 62 66 73 78 107 145 27 16 40 29 281 84 4 3 41 2 10 4 31 4 2 9 1 . 4 Offences against 10 coin and stampe. The following is a table of accidental deaths for the years 1867 to 1872 inclusive. Snake bites are particularly fatal to women it appears; but this is accounted for by the women largely engaging in weeding, gleaning, and also to their habit of early walking in the dusk before sunrise. The wild animals are bears, tigers, and wolves--all of them very scarce in the dis- trict, at least in the populous portions of it. In 1871. 30