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468 ORISSA TRIBUTARY STATES. June the thermometer registered over 100° F. The rainfall of Orissa is gauged at Cuttack, False Point, Puri, and Balasor. At Cuttack the average fall for 24 years ending 1881 was 56 inches; at False Point, for 15 years ending 1881, it was 73 inches; at Purí, 56 inches; and at Balasor, 66:6 inches. Cholera always breaks out in the months of June, July, and August, being brought by the pilgrims bound to or from the great festival of Jagannath. Measles appear to be unusually prevalent in Cuttack city and District. Small-pox generally makes its appearance about the beginning of the year, and as a rule ends before the middle of April. The Civil Surgeon states that its regular appearance cluring these months is owing to the practice of inoculation with small-pox matter. The inoculators preserve the virus in cotton, and commence operations about the end of December or beginning of January. Smallpox thus spreads to the unprotected, and becomes general throughout the District. The Uriyás are perfectly regardless of contagion ; and it is no uncommon sight to see people in the streets, or walking about the crowded market-places, covered with the disease. Ancient prejudice stands in the way of vaccination, and even the more enlightened natives of Orissa will seldom allow their children to be touched with vaccine matter. The Civil Surgeon reports favourably of the precautions which have been adopted to keep the pilgrims (the main cause of cholera epidemics) out of the town of Cuttack. This is effected by a sanitary cordon drawn round the municipal limits. There are 14 hospitals and dispensaries in British Orissa (1883), entertaining 1785 in-door patients in that year and 58,743 out-door patients; average daily attendance, in-door and out-door, 440. Total income of dispensaries, £3344, of which £433 represented native contributions. Three of the dispensaries are in Puri District, namely, Puri, Pipli, and Khurdha; number of patients treated in these three dispensaries, in-door 559, and out-door 12, 326; almost all of whom were pilgrims to the shrine of Jagannath. The registered death-rate for Orissa in 1883 was about 21 per thousand, but the registration is not to be relied on as accurate. Orissa Tributary States.-A cluster of 17 dependent territories which form the mountainous background of the Orissa Division, Lower Bengal. They lie between 19° 52' 15" and 22° 34' 15" n. lat., and between 83° 36' 30" and 87° 13' E. long. The territory is situated between the Mahanadi Delta and the Central Provinces. The following table exhibits statistics of the 17 States in 1883–84: 'Formerly, the Orissa Tributary States were 19 in number, but two have since becn confiscated, and are now administered as British territory, namely, Angúl, confiscated in 1847 for the rebellion of the Rajá; and Banki, confiscated in 1840, the chief having been convicted of murder.