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520 PABNA SUB-DIVISION-PACHAMALAI. The chief diseases are malarious fevers of a mild type, splenitis, and slight attacks of dysentery and diarrhæa. Cholera usually breaks out every year in a more or less severe form. The vital statistics for 1883 show a total of 32,148 registered deaths in 1883, or a death-rate of 26'10 per thousand. These figures, however, are considerably below the truth. There were, in 1883, two charitable dispensaries in the District, at which 333 in-door and 7415 out-door patients were treated during the year. [For further information regarding Pabná, see The Statistical Account of Bengal, by W. W. Hunter, vol. ix. pp. 269-376 (London, Trübner & Co., 1876). Also the Bengal Census Report for 1881, and the several Provincial Administration and Departmental Reports from 1880 to 1884.] Pabná. --- Sadr or head-quarters Sub-division of Pabná District, Bengal, lying between 23° 49' and 24° 20' N. lat., and between 89° 3' and 89° 47' E. long. Area, 901 square miles; villages, 1826; houses, 102,904. Population (1881) 611,964, namely, males 301,431, and females 310,533. Hindus numbered 182,648; Muhammadans, 429,237; Christians, 76; Buddhist, 1; and Jains, 2. Average number of persons per square mile, 679; villages per square mile, 2'03; houses per square mile, 118; persons per village, 335; inmates per house, 5'9. This Sub-division consists of the 4 police circles of Pabná, Dulái, Mathurá, and Chátmalar. In 1883 it contained 4 magisterial and 5 civil courts; a total regular police force of 236 men, with a village watch numbering 1112. Pabná.-Administrative head-quarters and second largest town of Pabná District, Bengal; situated on both banks of the Ichhámatí, in lat. 24° 0' 30" N., and long. 89° 17' 25" E. Population (188r) 15,267, namely, males 7701, and females 7566. Classified according to religion, Muhanımadans numbered 8106; Hindus, 7134; and others, 27. Municipal income (1883–84), £931, of which £872 was derived from taxation; average incidence of taxation, Is. 2d. per head of the population (14,883) within municipal limits. The Ichhámatí flows through the centre of the town; the old bed of the Ganges or Padma lies to the south. Chief buildings-the Government offices, circuithouse, police station, dispensary, Government English school, and Mánjhipárá Indigo Factory ; 5 large báziírs. Several good metalled roads. Pachamálai ('Green Mountains ').—Mountain range in Trichinopoli and Salem Districts, Madras, lying between 11° 10' and 11° 24' N. lat., and between 78° 33' 30" and 78° 50' E. long. Average height above sea-level, 2000 feet; length of range, about 20 miles. In shape the range has a slight resemblance to an hour-glass, being nearly cut in two by ravines of great size and depth, opening to the north-east and southwest. Of the two parts into which the range is thus divided, the north