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After cooling, quantities of 100 to 500 tolas are handed over to the

goldsmiths,

The

who

clean them and stamp

them by hand.

telegraph wire accompanies the railway throughout

its

course,

and there is also a Government wire to Baroda. There are 12 hospitals and 23 dispensaries in the whole State. Of these, 4 hospitals and 2 dispensaries are in the city of Baroda, and the remainder in the Districts, including those at the military stations of

Okhamandal and 6724

in-door,

The

Dhari.

total

and 143,892 out-door

number

patients.

treated in 1880-81

was

During the same year there

were 31 vaccinators employed, who operated upon 61,170 persons. In the year 1880-81, there were 192 educational institutions in the territory, either solely maintained at the cost of the State, or receiving grants-in-aid. The total expenditure to the State on account of education was Baroda Rupees 156,449, or about ;,{^i3,6o6, exclusive of expenditure on educational buildings. Of the 192 schools, 172 were

Government

institutions

with 17,089 pupils, and 20 private schools

receiving grants-in-aid, with

schools

is

I

a high school,

Of the 172 Government 1252 pupils. an Anglo-Indian institution, 7 Anglo-

i

vernacular schools, and 162 vernacular schools, including 8 schools for

and 9 Sanskrit schools of the indigenous type, in most of which some one of the Vedas, astronomy, grammar or logic are taught in the old Hindu fashion. The English department of education in the State

girls,

^

under the supervision of a European, whose salary is 8 ^ a month. native is the Director of Vernacular Instruction, receiving a salary of ^50 per month. He is assisted by 2 inspectors of schools. The

is

A

High School has a college division affiliated to the University of Bombay. The Baroda State comprises 3720 towns and villages, including hamlets, besides the city of Baroda, of which 31 contain a population of more than 5000 inhabitants each. Climate Over so wide a range of country, the climate necessarily varies much in character from the dry air and extreme fluctuations of temperature that mark the north of Guzerit, to the moister and more equable climate of the south. From its open situation on the seacoast, Okhamandal enjoys a healthy and bracing air, well suited to the European constitution. The climate of the central division, and of the city of Baroda itself, is comparatively moist, and during the rains very damp. The average annual rainfall is 42 ’82 inches. The maxi.

mum

—

—

temperature in

time of the day in 80°.

a

city

is

about

or June, the

105°

minimum

F.

in the

hottest

temperature about

During the cold weather months, the temperature varies from

maximum

regarding vii.,

Baroda

May

by

F,

of 92° to a

minimum

of 59°.

[For further information

Baroda, see the Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency., vol. A. H. Elliot, Esq., tutor to His Highness the Gaekwdr