Page:The Imperial Gazetteer of India - Volume 10 (2nd edition).pdf/247



NASIK SUB-DIVISION AND HEAD-QUARTERS. 235 14,225. There is, on an average, one village with a school to each 24 square miles. There are 3 libraries and reading - rooms. Two vernacular newspapers were published weekly in the District in 1881-82. Medical Aspects.—The rainfall is liable to great variation according to the distance from the Gháts. The average rainfall at Násik town during the five years ending 1881 was 291 inches. The prevailing diseases are fever and skin affections. In 1881-82, six dispensaries attorded medical relief to 120 in-door and $1,663 out-door patients, and 21,684 persons were vaccinated. Vital statistics showed a deathrate of 22'13 per thousand. (For further information regarding Násik, see the Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, published under Government orders, and compiled by Mr. J. M. Campbell, C.S., vol. xvi., Násik District (Government Central Press, Bombay, 1883). Also the Bombay Census Report for 1881; and the several annual Administration and Departmental Reports of the Bombay Government.] Násik.-Sub-division of Násik District, Bombay Presidency. Area, 465 square miles, containing 2 towns and 134 villages. Population (1872) 92,177; (1881) 94,980, namely, 48,513 males and 46,467 females. Hindus numbered 85,644; Muhammadans, 5326; and others,' 4010. Land revenue (1882), £7940. The Sub-division is situated in the south-west of the District. Bounded on the north by the Peint, Dindori, and Niphád ; on the east by Niphád and Sinnar; on the south by Igatpuri; and on the west by Thána District. The general character of the surface is undulating, and the west is hilly. In the Darna valley the soil is deep and rich. The Bombay-Jabalpur (Jubbulpore) Railway and the Bombay-Agra highroad traverse the Sub-division. Climate varies, but on the whole is healthy; average rainfall, 27 inches. Water-supply good, except near the Sahyadris. Besides the Darna, the Godavari waters the Subdivision. In 1880-81 there were 5982 holdings, with an average area of 28 acres, paying an average assessment of £2, 16s.; incidence of the land-tax, about 35. per head. In 1880-81, of 147,649 acres held for tillage, 24,196 acres were fallow or under grass. Of the remaining 123,453 acres, 1888 acres were twice cropped. Of 125,341 acres, the area under actual cultivation, grain crops occupied 88,131 acres; pulses, 17,180 acres; oil-seeds, 16,974 acres; fibres, 400, all under brown hemp—cotton is not grown; and miscellaneous crops 2656 acres, of which 1102 acres were under sugar-cane. In 1883 the Sub-division contained i civil and 4 criminal courts; police circles (thánás), 3; regular police, 87 men ; village watch (chaukidárs), 154. Násik. -- Chief town of Násik District, Bombay Presidency; situated in lat. 19° 59' 45" N., and long. 73° 49'50” E., 4 miles