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the unpaid services of 4 honorary magistrates, selected from native gentlemen of the District.

For police purposes the

District

is

among

the

divided into 9 circles [ihdnds).

In 1880, the regular police force numbered 453 of all ranks, and cost A municipal or town force, of 68 officers and men, was also
 * ,^6ri3.

kept up at a cost of ^438. A rural police of 3522 village watchmen (chaukiddrs) was maintained by the landowners at a cost of_;^7i3i. Total police force, 4043 officers and men, or

i

man

to every '44 square

mile of area and to every 254 persons of population; total cost, ^13,682, or an average of ;£], T4S. 8d. per square mile, and 3id. per head.

During the

six years

ending 1872, the average number of concoining, culpable homicide, and

victions for rioting, theft, robbery,

murder, was 627. In 1880, the number of convictions was 670, out of a total of 3417 ‘cognisable’ cases investigated by the police. Fivesixths of the convictions still

were

for theft.

practise female infanticide.

their villages in

1871 showed

made away

A

The Raikwars

special

that,

of

Ramnagar

Census undertaken

out of every

5

girls

in 53 of

born,

2

had

Education in 1880-81 was afforded by 145 schools, either supported or aided by Government, and attended This is exclusive of uninspected and unaided schools. by 5126 pupils. The Census Report returned a total of 5677 boys and 54 girls under instruction in 1881 ; besides 22,666 males and 288 females able to read and write, but not under instruction. The District is divided into 19 pargands or clusters of villages, grouped under 4 Sub-divisions {tahsUs). Medical Aspects. The year divides into three seasons the hot weather from the end of March to the middle of June, then the rains till the end of September or beginning of October, and the cold weather till March comes round again. The average rainfall for the 15 years ending 1881 was 37's8 inches; "arying from 21 inches in 1868 to 64 inches in 1871. In 1881, the rainfall amounted to 31 ‘58 inches, being 6‘o8 inches below the average. The prevailing diseases are epidemic cholera, small-pox, and malarial fevers, of a mild, intermittent, quotidian type. Cases of tertian and remittent fevers are rare. A few sporadic cases of cattle-disease occurred in 1871 and 1872, but [For further information regardthere has been no serious outbreak. ing Bara Banki, see the Settlement Report of the District, 1879, by Lieutenant-Colonel F. E. A. Chamier; the Oudh Gazetteer, by Mr. probably been

with.

—

—

M'Minn, C.S. (Lucknow Press); the North- Wester7i Provinces and Oudh Ce?isus Report for i88i and the Provincial Administration

C.



Reports for 1880 to 1882.]

Bara Banki

Nawdbga?ij).

(or

— Tahsil

or

Sub-division

of Bara

Banki District, Oudh bounded on the north by Fatehpur, on the east by Ram Sanehi, on the south by Haidargarh and by Mohanlalganj in