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 BHANDARA TOWN. mutilated.

The

amounted

in

judges of

all

1

total cost

of District

and police of all kinds of civil and revenue

Number

880-81 to ^11,236.

sorts within

officials

-h^l

the District, 7

— magistrates, maximum —average distance, 7



distance of any village from the nearest court, 56

30 miles; number of regular and municipal police, 434, costing ^5555, being i policeman to every 9 square miles and to every 1575 inhabitants. In 1880, the daily average number of convicts in jail was 95 '98, of whom 1 1 '32 were females. Unpolished as they are, the inhabitants of Bhandara have shown themselves more than usually sensible of the value of education. Twenty-eight private schools in the large towns and 27 in the villages supplied instruction, the teachers being Brdhmans or Vidurs, the illegitimate descendants of Brdhmans, either in the Persian or the Marathi language. In some cases, these old town and village schools served as foundations for the existing institutions on the introduction of the present system of education. In 1881, the Government or aided schools under Government inspection., all of which have been established since 1864, numbered 53, attended by 3987 pupils. Medical Aspects. In 1871, the rainfall at the civil station was 55 '97 inches; in 1876 it amounted only to 38'i5 inches; in 1880 it was 61 inches. In the latter year the temperature in the shade was thus recorded: May, highest reading iii° F., lowest 75’55°; July, highest reading 90°, lowest 67°; December, highest reading 83°, lowest 37°. The most deadly disease is fever, which prevails throughout the year, but proves most fatal during the months of September, October, and November. Nearly 80 per cent, of the deaths must be attributed to this cause. Bowel complaints carry off large numbers and small-pox, owing to the little progress as yet made by vaccination, commits great ravages, more especially during the months of April, May, and June. In 1880, the registered death-rate from all Three charitable discauses was 30-58 per 1000 of the population.

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—



pensaries afford medical relief to the poor.

regarding Bhandara, J.

see

the

[For further information

Settlement Report of the

Lawrence, Esq., C.S. (1867)



District.,

by

the Central Provinces Gazetteer, by

Charles Grant, Esq., C.S., C.S.I. (Nagpur, 1870); the Census Report and the Administration Reports of of the Central Provinces for 1881

those Provinces from 1880 to 1883.]

— Chief

town and head-quarters of Bhandara District, 9' 22" n., long. 79° 41' 43” e. Population (1881) 11,150, mostly Dhers, Koshti's, and Kasars, with a few Muham madans and Brahmans. Situated on the Wainganga river, close to the Great Eastern Road, the town does a good trade in the hardware it manufactures, and in cotton cloth. Built entirely on red gravel, it is dry and healthy, but depends for its water on wells and tanks outside.

Bhandara.

Central Provinces.

Lat. 21°