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 — BELGAUM. repairs

wells,

to

tanks

and old

wells,

planting out of trees on the roadsides,

237

roads,

and

bungalows,

travellers’

maintenance of a

for the

There are 6 municipalities in the District Belgaum Town, Gokak, Athni, Nipani, Saundatti, and Yamkanmardi. The total municipal receipts in 1880-81 amounted to ^6730, and the total dispensary.



expenditure to ;^5598 ; the incidence of taxation varied from 6d. In 1880-81, to 2S. 3d. per head in the different municipalities. the

amount

total

of

revenue

from

raised

the

including

District,

and local funds, was .;^i79,37o, showing an incithe land revenue alone realized dence of taxation per head of 4s.

imperial, municipal,




 * ^i 28

,

7 io.

There are 4 dispensaries and persons in

all

i

During 1880-81, 17,129 17,030 were out-door and 99

hospital.

whom

were treated, of

In the same year, r 7,432 persons were vaccinated. number of deaths registered during the fourteen years ending

in-door patients.

The

total

1879, was returned at 338,112, being an average yearly mortality of 24,151, or a death-rate of 2573 per 1000 of the total population; in 1880, the number of deaths was 23,498, or a rate of 2 7 '2 per 1000.

During the year 1880, the number of births was returned at 24,184, of 12,526 were entered as male, and 11,658 as female children, or

whom

a rate of 28^0 per 1000.

In the year 1880-81, there were 195 Government schools, besides 5 missionary schools, or an average of one school for every 6 villages, with an attendance of 12,386 pupils, or 1-43 per cent, of the total population, though, if the percentage were calculated merely on the

population of the villages where there are schools, of the above

number were

for girls,

it

2

is

with 368 scholars



'9;

in

9 schools addition

there were 233 girls receiving education in mixed schools, making Educational expenditure, from imperial, a total of 601 girl scholars. local,

and other funds, ;^68o4.

and

local newspaper.

I

In Belgaum town there are

7 libraries

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Sometimes in April and May the heat is extreme, June and July the air is close and heavy, but on the whole the For a series of years climate is equable and pleasant to Europeans. from 1852 to 1861 the average annual rainfall was 46'32 inches; while for the twenty-two years ending between 1862 and i87r, 2477 In the latter year, the rainfall was 2 8 '5 7 1881 it was 32 '89 inches. At the close of the rainy inches, or 4'32 inches below the average. season, in October and November, fevers are common, but at other Medical Aspects

and

.

in



times, except in the wilder or less cultivated tracts near the Sahyadri Hills, the climate is healthy.

The

only famous place of pilgrimage in the District

goddess Yellama, year, at the full

in the

moon

the

hill

of the

Parasgad Sub-division, on which, twice

in the

of April and November,

fairs

is

are held, lasting for