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 BASSEIN TO JVNSITIF AND TO WN aided

by the

The Roman

State.

good school

established a

Catholic

community have

Bassein town, as well as a

in

201

girls’

also

school,

with an average attendance of 84 pupils. In 1874, Government established a middle-class school. The number of pupils on March 31,

At the cess school in Ngathaing-Chaung the fees and 6d. for girls. Primary education is in the hands of Buddhist monks, and the schools of those monks who 1881, was

are

is.

192.

per

will allow

month

for boys,

are e.xamined yearly.

it,

number of inspected

Tlie total

schools in 1880-81 was 368, of which 2 were Government, 4 Mission schools, and 368 indigenous village schools. Total number of pupils,

8630.

This

exclusive of uninspected schools, for which

is

The Census Report

are available.

no

of i88i, however, returned

details

17,642

boys and 1833 as under instruction in that year, besides 81,097 males and 3292 females able to read and write, but not under instruction ; proportion of educated males, 48‘65 per cent, of the male ])opulation; ditto of females,

Climate,

etc.

per cent, of the female population.

275

—The climate of Bassein

is

relaxing,

owing to the situation

of the District in the delta of the Irawadi, with the country around

by

intersected

muddy banks

tidal creeks, the

of which are exposed

during the greater part of the day. In 1881-82, the total rainfall was ii2‘2o inches. Cholera and fever are reported to be endemic, whilst

bowel complaints, dropsy, and rheumatism are common. Small-pox is much spread by inoculation. [For further information regarding Bassein, seethe article in the British Burma (Rangoon, 1879), vol.

ii.

pp.

84-112; the British Burma Census Report of 1881



and

the Provincial Administration Reports from 1880 to 1883.]

—Township

bank of the Bassein river, in Burma. Towards the north the ground is undulating, but the country to the south is flat, and highly cultivated with rice. The town of Bassein lies in the west centre. In 1881 the population numbered 48,367 ; the gross revenue was ^11,983. Town, head-quarters station, and chief port of Bassein Bassein. District, British Burma; situated in the delta of the Irawadi, on both banks Bassein.

on the

left

Bassein District, Pegu Division,

British

—

of the Bassein

river.

in 1876, 22,417.

Lat. 16° 46' n., long. 94° 48' 10" £.

In 1881

it

had

Buddhists, 3781 Hindus, 3362

34

‘others.’

Population

risen to 28,147, consisting of 19,848

Muhammadans, 1122

Municipal revenue

in

Christians,

and

1881-82, ;£i28^-, expenditure,

^1207. On the left bank of the river, in the Ze-Chaung quarter, is Shwe Mii-htaw Pagoda. This now forms the centre of the English

the

fort,

in

oflice.

jMyothit,

which

The

are

also

the

and police bank are Athegyi, The small Theng-bhaw-gyeng suburb, court

-

houses,

other quarters of the town on the

and Talaing-Chaung.

treasury,

left

containing the rice mills and store yards of the principal merchants.