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VINGIRI-NIMKIAR. 11 335 costing £6522; being i policeman to every 7.99 miles and to every 553 inhabitants. The daily average number of convicts in jail in 1883 was 127, of whom il were females. The number of Government or aided schools in the District under Government inspection was 87, attended by 4758 pupils. Jledical Aspects.—The climate of the open parts of Nimár is, on the whole, good, though the heat is very ficrce in the Narbadá valleys during April and May. Central Nimár does not suffer excessive heat in summer, while during the monsoon months the air is cool and clear. The average annual rainfall at Khandwi town for a period of seventeen years ending 1881, is 32°52 inches. In 1883, 37°28 nches fell, of which 3451 inches were recorded from June to September. The jungle parts of the District are extremely malarious from July to December, and are consequently inhabited only by Kurkús and other hill tribes. The monthly average temperature at the civil station of Khandwa for a period of six years endling 1881, is returned as follows :- January, 66-5° F.; February, 71.2°; March, 79'9°; April, 87.5°; May, 92'0°; June, 87.9°; July, So 1°; August, 78.8°; September, 78.6°; October, 77'1°; November, 70'2' ; December, 65'9° : average for the year, 780° F. The prevalent disease is fever, especially about the close of the monsoon. Cholera used to be an almost annual scourge ; but since the stoppage in 1864 of the great religious gatherings in the Upper Narbadá valley during the hot season, cholera has rarely been epidemic. In 1883, 5 charitable dispensaries afforded medical relief to 30,171 in-door and out-door patients. Vital statistics in that year showed a death-rate of 50'94 per thousand, which is the highest rate for that year in the Central Provinces; the mcan deathrate for the previous five years in Nimár District was 40'93 per thousand, still the highest rate for any District in the Central Provinces. (For further inforniation regarding Nimár, see the Central Provinces Gazetteer, by Mr. (now Sir Charles) Grant, pp. 371-387 (Nagpur, 1870). Also the Settlement Report of Nimír District, by Captain James Forsyth (1869); the Census Report of the Central Provinces for 1881 ; and the sereral annual Administration and Departmental Reports of the Central Provinces Government.] Nimgiri (Nyámgiri). — Range of mountains in the Jaipur country, Vizagapatam District, Madras Presidency—lat. 19° 45' N., long. 82° 30' E.—rising to a height of 5000 feet, and running parallel to the main chain of the Eastern Ghats, from which it is separated by valleys not a quarter of a mile in width. The Vamsádhára (samsa = bamboo) river rises in this range. The road from Bissemkatak to Singapur crosses the Nimgiris by the Papekonmama gorge. Nímkhar (or Nimsár).—Town in Sítápur District, Oudh ; situated on the left bank of the Gúmtí, 20 miles from Sitápur town, in lat. 27°