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 502 LUCKNO IV TAIISIL AND PARGAJ’A.

the city) was 17,560, or at the rate of 38-43 per thousand, against an average of 35-09 per thousand in the previous ﬁve years. In Lucknow city in 1883, the deaths from fever numbered 5ta7, and from small- pox 21 :4, the total mortality being at the rate of 34-66 per thousand. Total registered deaths in District and city in 1883, 28,630. The prin- cipal medical institutions are the King’s hospital, civil dispensary, and Balrampur hospital in the city of Lucknow, at which 40,480 patiems received medical relief in 1883. A lunatic asylum for the whole of Oudh is situated upon the eastern bank of the Gtirnti, near the Faide road. [For further information regarding Lucknow, see the Gazetteer of Gad/l, vol. ii. pp. 301-396 (published by authority, Allahabad, 1877); the Report or: (In Land Settlement ey’ Lucknow District, by Mr. H. H. Butts, C.S. (Lucknow, 1873); the Cami: Report of tit: [Vortb- lVestmr me'ntes and 0111!}: for :881; and the several Administration and Departmental Reports from 1880 to 1884.]

LuCkDOW.—TMSU or Subdivision of Lucknow District. Oudh, lying between 26' 38' 3e" and 27' o’ 15" 3'. lat, and between 80° 42' and 8t' 8’ 30” It. long. Bounded on the north by Malihtiba'd tonsil; on the east by Bari Banki District; on the south by Mohanlalgan] (aloft; and on the west by Mohair (all!!! of Unao. This tahril comprises the 3 pargumi: of Lucxnow, Buxwk, and KAKORI. Population (1869) 468,507; (r881) 414,570, namely, males 219,327, and females 195,243. The decrease of 53,937, or rr'5 per cent., between the twelve years 1869-1881 is, as explained in the article on Lucknow District, mainly attributable to the famine of 1877-73. and the fever epidemic of the following year. Classiﬁed according to religion, the population in 1881 consisted of—llindus, 29!,t79; Muhammadans, “6,541; Jains, 338; ‘others,’ 6512. Total number of villages and towns, 343, of which 22: contain less than ﬁve hundred inhabitants The talk” contains (including the head-quarter Courts of the Judicial Commissioner of Oudh, the Commissioner of the Lucknow Division, and the Deputy-Commissioner of the District) 9 criminal and 7 civil courts. Number of police circles, 3; strength of regular police, I625 men (including 876 municipal police), besides a rural police or village watch of 461 clinukiddn.

Lucknow—Pargané of Lucknow District. Oudh; the tract lying immediately around LUCKXOW Cm', in which the whole interest of the pargand centres. Area, 165 square miles, of which 96 are returned as under cultivation, being practically the whole of the land available [or tillage. Population (1869), including Lucknow city, 368,977; (t88t) 323,970, namely, males 172,189, and females 15t,781. Rents are high, but, as elsewhere, Rdjputs pay less than the lower castes. Their average rent is 75. 9d. per acre, while Ludhis pay 125. 6d., and Kachhis as high as 275. 3d. an acre. ln individual instances in