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 BANGALORE jail

contains

In

the

many

officer,

same 53

subordinate police

subordinate

officers,

officers,

of

police force consisted of

superintendent,

i

at

an



4

averages tion.

or

every

to


 * !^4, 15s.

aggregate

Government was

of

cost

62

878 men

^^13,797, of these

According to square miles

766 of the population

of schools in

234,

attended by

12 '4 square miles,

to every

officers,

total of



while

of the

the cost

per square mile, and 4|d. per head of popula-

id.

The number

superior

making a

which ;^38 o 6 was paid from local sources. policeman to every 3^3 figures, there is i District area,

superior

i

and 527 constables; the town and

and 230 constables

maintained

ranks,

all

65

long-term convicts from the entire State of Mysore.

year, the District

cantonment of

DISTRICT.

1880-81 aided and inspected by 10,775 scholars, being i school to every thousand of the

and 16 scholars

population.

Medical Aspects

.

— The climate of Bangalore town and the surrounding

noted for its healthiness, but in the hilly jungles towards the The mean annual west and south, malarious fever is endemic. temperature is 76 '2° F., the extreme range in any single year having been country

is

The average annual rainfall is 36 inches, distributed over about The heaviest fall generally occurs during the prevalence 90 of the north-east monsoon in October from December to May there is usually little or no rain. The most prevalent disease is malarious 42°.

days.



fever, frequently

common

at

the

attended with enlargement of the spleen

beginning

and close

of the

occasionally appears in an epidemic form, attributed

from Madras.

Small-pox

hot season, and at the

is

always more or

commencement

it is



monsoons.

most

Cholera

to importation

less prevalent

during the

of the rains, though vaccination

now systematically conducted in every taluk. Pneumonia in natives, and congestion of the lungs in Europeans, are common. In recent years there have been some cases of typhoid fever, confined to the European population. On the other hand, the severe but not fatal epidemic of dengue fever in 1872 was almost entirely limited to the Out of a total number of 10,003 deaths reported in 1880, natives. is

5470 were assigned

to fevers, 82 to small-pox,

563 to bowel complaints,

4 to cholera, 1 1 to suicide, and 24 to snake-bite or wild animals ; to all The births registered for 1880 were 8333 males, other causes, 3849.

and 7941 females; total, 16,274. There are two charitable establishments at Bangalore for the relief of the sick the Bowring Civil In 1880 a total of 1441 in-patients Hospital and the Pet Dispensar}’. were treated at the hospital, and the number of deaths was 221, or The dispen153-3 per thousand; the out-patients numbered 24,825. sary in-patients numbered 247 during the year 1880, of whom i died; the number of out-patients was 21,215.

—

[For further information regarding Bangalore District, see the Mysore II. E

VOL.