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MISORE DISTRICT: 113 of pupils in 1880 was 42,657. Of the whole number, however, only 132 are educated up to the university standard. The total outlay on education in 1980-81 was £29,939. The returns show i State or aided school to every 22°S square miles, and 10 pupils to every thousand of the population. Female education is also said to be growing in popularity. In 1880, the number of girls under instruction was 3944. The Census of issi returned 64,733 boys and 3636 girls as under instruction, together with 169,965 males and 5446 females not under instruction, but able to read and write. In 1883-84, the total number of schools of all classes in Mysore was 937 State schools, 197 aided schools, and 1254 private schools ; total, 2388 schools, with 63,490 pupils. Of the whole number of scholars, 59,662 were boys and 3828 girls. These figures show i school to every io square miles, and 15 pupils to every thousand of the population. Medical Institutions. The medical institutions consist of 3 general hospitals, 17 dispensaries, with a lunatic asylum (140 inmates), and a leper hospital (34 inniates) at Bangalore. Number of vaccinations, 94,010. In 1880-S1, the total number of patients treated was 156,989, of whom 3515 were in-patients. Maternity hospitals have been opened at Mysore and Bangalore. Great improvement had taken place in the registration of vital statistics of the general population. The number of births registered in 1880-81 was 87,315, or 208 per thousand of the population. The birth-rate was in the proportion of 106.5 males to every 100 females. The number of deaths recorded was So, 291, or 19'07 per thousand. As usual, the greatest number of deaths, two-thirds of the whole, were ascribed to fever. [For further information regarding Mysore State, see the Gasetteer of llysore, by Mr. Lewis Rice, 2 vols. (Bangalore, 1877).] Mysore (or Asahesh-úru, ó Buffalo town,' the generally accepted derivation being from Nsahesh-asura, the buffalo-headed demon; corrupted to Maheshúr, and to Maisir, Allysore).-District forming the southernmost portion of Mysore State, included in the Ashtagram Division; situated between 11° 6' and 12° 45' N. lat., and between 75° 56' and 77° 24' E. long Area, 2980 square miles, and a population, according to the Census of 1881, of 902,566 persons. Bounded on the north by Hassan and Túmkúr Districts of Mysore State; east by Bangalore District of Mysore State and the Madras District of Coimbatore; south by the Madras Districts of Nilgiri and Malabar; and west by Coorg. The administrative head-quarters and residence of the Mahárájá are at MYSORE TOWN. Physical Aspects. The District of Mysore has been described as an undulating table-land, well wooded and fertile, and watered by perennial streams, which feed numerous artificial channels. There is a gradual VOL. X. H