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BANDA.

54

The

land assessment in 1870-71

amounted

to

^130,482, of which

were collected. Since then a reassessment of the whole District has been made, and the new settlement, which came into force in 1882, resulted in a further reduction of the land revenue demand to ;^i 16,231. There are 8 Fiscal Divisions or pargands, con-

_j^i3o, 476

The number

taining 1596 separate estates.

of proprietors

is

returned

Zavihiddri, 3187 ; pattiddn, 21,293; revenue-free, 160. The total revenue in

at 25,591, classified as follows;

bhdydchdra,

1251



and

1870-71 was ;^i 67,488, which in 1881 had decreased to ^129,535. As Banda forms a portion of the Allahabad Division, it is administered

under the Regulation system organized in 1803. The civil jurisdiction There of the whole District is in the hands of the Subordinate Judge. The are 13 magisterial, 2 civil, and 13 revenue and rent courts. District contains 24 police stations and ii outposts. The regular police, in 1880-8 r, amounted to 523 men, maintained at a cost of ^6580 from imperial funds. The municipal or town police in 1880

numbered 88 men, costing ^590. {chauk'iddrs).

The

There are also 1723 village watchmen one jail, the average number 1850, 121 in i860, 292 in 1870, and

District contains only

of prisoners in which was 555 in 258 in 1880. Education is advancing slowly.

In i860, there were

1870 the total had increased to In 1880-81, there were 142 schools, under Government inspec4966. tion, and receiving State aid in the District, attended by 3884 pupils. This excludes uninspected and indigenous schools outside the Education Department. The Census Report of 1881 returned 5890 boys and 120 girls as under instruction in that year, besides 16,869 males

3006 children under instruction;

and 149 females able

The

in

read and write, but not under instruction. two administrative Sub-divisions, Banda and

to

District contains

Karwi.

Medical Aspects.

— The cold season

in

Banda

of the neighbouring Districts, frost being very sets in

about the middle of March, and

The atmosphere

is

almost unknown. observed. heat,

On

distinguished by

The

beautiful

is less

intense than that

The

rare.

hot weather

the spring crops are cut by April.

its

clearness, fog

phenomenon

and dust being

of the mirage

is

often

the other hand, this purity of the air contributes to the

and many deaths occur from exposure

—January,

February, 61

Mean

to the sun.

tem-

March, 82‘5° April, 94° 86‘2° 90'6° September, 84'5° August, May, 96°; June, 947°; July, October, 83°; November, 75°; December, 63'6°. The average annual

perature

F.



'9°







rainfall for

a period of 30 years ending 1881-82 was 39 inches, the year being 28 ‘9 inches, or 10 inches below the The climate is healthy for natives, but produces fever

rainfall in the latter

average.

and ague among Europeans. The only endemic disease is fever, which becomes epidemic from August to November.

malarial

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