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10 in Múltán District in 1883-84 was 79. Of these 9 are represented by the District school and its branches in Múltán city, 1 is the railway school for Europeans and Eurasians, 4 are aided missionary boys' schools, and 4 are aided missionary girls' schools. All the others are vernacular schools, 2 of the middle and 59 of the primary grade. The total number of pupils attending these schools in 1883–84 was 3924, with an average attendance of 3080. Besides these, there were 8 indigenous schools, with 148 pupils inspected by the Department. The uninspected indigenous schools include—394 schools where the Kurán alone is taught; 122 schools where Persian is taught together with the Kurán; 18 Sanskrit schools; 13 Arabic schools; 10 Mahájání or commercial schools, where a high standard of arithmetic is taught; and 7 Gurmukhi schools.

For fiscal and administrative purposes, the District is divided into 5 tahsíls, having their head-quarters at Múltán, Shújábád, Lodhrán, Nailsi, and Sarái Sidhu. The 6 municipal towns of, and had an aggregate revenue, in 1883–84, of £11,767, being at the average rate of 2s. 8d. per head of the population (88,083) within municipal limits.

Medical Aspects.—The climate of Múltán is proverbial, even among the hot and dusty Punjab plains, for its heat and dust in the dry season, although the cold weather is very pleasant. The annual mean temperature is about 77° F. In 1883, the thermometer in May ranged from a maximum of 111.9° to a minimum of 68.2°; in July, from a maximum of 105.9° to a minimum of 70.8°, and in December, from a maximum of 75.9° to a minimum of 37.0°. The average annual rainfall is returned by the Meteorological Department at 7.17 inches, that for 1883 being 6.5 inches. The total number of deaths reported in 1883 was 16,530, being at the rate of 30 per thousand, of which 11,508 were assigned to fevers. The District contains 6 Government charitable dispensaries, which afforded relief in 1883 to 39,933 persons, of whom 1926 were in-patients. [For further information regarding Múltán, see the Gazetteer of Múltán District, published under the authority of the Punjab Government (Lahore, 1884); the Punjab Census Report for 1881; and the several annual Administration and Departmental Reports of the Punjab Government.]

Múltán.—Tahsíl in Múltán District, Punjab, stretching from the bank of the Chenáb. Area, 949 square miles, with 287 towns and villages, 31,511 houses, and 16,147 families. Population (1868) 138,272; (1881) 170,610, namely, males 95,374, and females 75,236. Increase of population since 1868, 32,338, or 233 per cent., in thirteen years. Classified according to religion, there were in 1881—Muhammadans, 122,831; Hindus, 44,950; Sikhs, 935; Jains, 46; Pársís, 63; Christians, 1763; and 'others,' 4. Of the 287