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east, and annexations from Manbhum on the west, which have already been referred to. In 1880-81, the total District revenue amounted to The Po 74 373 of which ^45,853 was derived from the land tax. regular police force consisted in 1880 of 2 superior and 53 subordinate officers, with 208 constables, maintained at a total cost, including all contingencies, of ;^5486. In addition there was a municipal police force of 7 officers and 127 men, maintained at a total cost of;^875, defrayed by rates levied within municipal limits and a rural force of village watchmen numbering 8345 men. Each village watchman has charge, on an average, of 30 houses, and receives an average pay in money or lands of )

)



^3,

a year.

4s.

The

estimated aggregate cost, both Government and

private, of maintaining these several police forces

amounted,

in 1880, to

equal to a charge of ^^12, 12s. 4d. per square mile, or 7^d. per head of the population. In 1880, the average daily number of


 * ^33 ,o 65,

prisoners

in

the Bankura

33o'34, the total 1719.

Education

is

and Bishnupur subsidiary

jail

number of

was

prison,

prisoners received during the year being

gradually making

In

progress in the District.

1856-57, the total number of Government and aided schools was 14, with 1354 pupils; in 1872-73, the returns showed 134 Government and of which 58 private schools, attended by 6425 pupils, costing

Government contributed

In 1880, the number of aided and 103. inspected Primary Schools alone was 1186, attended by 29,568 pupils.

The Census Report instruction,

of 1881 returned a total of 30,599 boys as under as able to read and write, out of a

and 54,133 other males

male population of 507,136. Of the female population of 534,616, only 507 girls were reported as under instruction, and 409 other females as able to read and write. total

Medical Aspects,

etc

.

—The

climate

of Bankura

is

and

oppressive

relaxing in the hot season, but from October to the end of February it

is

bracing and enjoyable

damp and



during the rains the District

unhealthy as those farther

east.

The

temperature, according to the latest returns,

is

is

not so

average annual

mean

about 78’6o° F.

the



In average rainfall for the 26 years ending 1881 was 56‘47 inches. 1881, the rainfall at Bankura town was returned at 73'27 inches, or i6'8o inches above the

Bankura

Intermittent fever

average.

as in other Districts of Bengal,

and

is

is

common

particularly severe at Bishnupur since the lamine of 1866.

diarrhoea,

and dysentery

are also

present in a sporadic form, and

breaks occurred

in

1855,

i860,

common.

Cholera

is

Leprosy,

almost always

sometimes becomes epidemic 1864, and 1866.

occasionally epidemic in the District.

[For further

in

said to have been



out-

Small-pox, too, partii ulars

is

regarding

District, see my Statistical Account of Bengal, vol. iv. pp. 205 308 (Triibner, 1876); also for information regarding the state of the country on the accession of British rule, see my Annals of Rural

Bankura

to