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MUZAFFARPUR SUB-DIVISION AND TOIN 83 marhi, and Sursand, which afforded medical relief in 1883 to 483 in-door and 27,739 out-door patients. Average annual rainfall at Muzaffarpur town, 46.47 inches. Muzaffarpur.-Head-quarters Sub-division of Muzaffarpur District, Bengal. Area, 1218 square miles; number of towns and villages, 2043 ; houses, 145,191. Population (1881), males 500,906, and females 518,729 ; total, 1,019,635, namely, Hindus, 892,243; Muhammadans, 127,083; and Christians, 309. Density of population, 837 persons per square mile; villages per square mile, 1.6S; houses per square mile, 122; persons per village, 499; persons per house, 7'02. This Sub-division comprises the three thánis or police circles of Muzaffarpur, Paru, and Katra. In 1883 it contained + civil and 5 criminal courts, with a regular police force of 245 of all ranks, and a village watch or rural police aggregating 1991 me Muzaffarpur. - Chief town and administrative head-quarters of Muzaffarpur District, Bengal; situated on the right or south bank of the Little Gandak, in lat. 26° 7' 23" N., and long. 85° 26' 52" E. Population (1872) 38,223 ; (1881) 42,460, namely, males 22,802, and females 19,658. Classified according to religion, there were in 1881– Hindus, 29,748; Muhammadans, 12,479; and 'others,' 233. Area of town site, 2560 acres. The income of the Muzaffarpur municipality in ISS3-S4 amounted to £3296, of which £2914 was derived from taxation; average incidence of taxation, 1s. 41d. per head. Municipal income (1876–77), £2908; expenditure, £3165; average incidence of taxation, 8 d. per head of population within municipal limits. The town is clean, and the streets in many cases broad and well kept, running principally from east to west. There is a good collectorate and court-house, a jail, dispensary, and several schools, some of the best of which are supported by the Behar Scientific Society and the Dharma Samáj. The bázárs are large, and markets are held daily. Roads run to Hajipur, Lálganj, Rewághát, Sohánsighát, Motihari, Sítámarhi, and on to Nepál, Pupri, Kamtaul, Darbhangah, Púsa, and Dalsinhsarái. Considerable trade is carried on by the Little Gandak, which river, if slightly improved, would admit boats of 500 maunds, or about 20 tons burden, all the year round. Near the court buildings is a lake or mún, which is simply an old bed of the river. To prevent the current from cutting away the ground near the offices, an embankment was thrown across the lake towards Dáúdpur. The river has not been able to force its way into the lake, but it has cut very deeply into the high bank near the circuit-house; and unless it changes its course, or protective works are erected, it will probably in time break through the strip of land which at present intervenes between it and the lake. In 1871 the town suffered much from inundation. The principal religious buildings are two large temples in the