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each school, and 4*5 scholars per thousand of the population. Female education is carried on by 7 schools, one of which is of a high class. For fiscal and administrative purposes, Bareilly is divided into 6 tahsils and 14 pargands, with 3832 separate estates. The District contains only one municipality, that of Bareilly. for

Medical Aspects.

by

its

—The

proximity to the

climate of the District

hills,

Bareilly city

and

lying within the limits of the heavier storms.

a

little earlier,

and ends a

little later,

all

is

largely influenced

the northern pargands

The

rainy season begins

than elsewhere to the south, and

The atmosphere is damp, the heat The average annual mean

the cold weather lasts longer.

moderate, and the hot winds not excessive.

temperature at Bareilly town for the 13 years ending 1880 was 74'9, maximum of 89 '5 in June, and a minimum of 5 6 ’9 in The average annual rainfall for the 32 years ending 1881 January. amounted to 4o‘97 inches; the maximum during this period was 62'8 reaching a

and the minimum 197 inches, in i860. In 1881, the was 2 '62 inches below the average. The total number of deaths recorded in the year 1880 was 26,536, or 2574 inches, in 1867,

rainfall at

Bareilly

per thousand of the population

the average death-rate for the pre-

vious 6 years was returned as 20^94 per thousand. tains 4 dispensaries

2

in the

city of Bareilly,

and

The i

District con-

each at Aonla

and Baheri. patients.

In 1881 they afforded relief to a total of 59,780 [For further information regarding Bareilly, see the Settle-

ment Report of the

District (1874), by S. M. Moens, Esq., C.S. ; the Gazetteer of the North-Western Provinces, by H. C. Conybeare, Esq.,

C.S.,

and E. T. Atkinson,

Esq., C.S., vol.

v.

pp. 499-675 (Allahabad,

1879); the North-Western Provinces Census Report for 1881; and the Provincial Administration Reports for 1880 to 1882.]

Bareilly {Bareli). City in Bareilly District, North-Western Proand administrative head-quarters of the District and also of the Rohilkhand Division. Lat. 28° 22' 9" n., long. 29° 26' 38" e. Population in 1881, 103,160, namely, 56,550 Hindus, 45,877 Muhammadans, 720 Christians, and 13 ‘others.’ Bareilly is the most populous city in Rohilkhand, and fifth in the North-Western Provinces. It stands at an elevation of 550 feet above sea-level, on the Ramganga river, 96 miles above its confluence with the Ganges ; distant from Calcutta 788 miles north-west, and from Delhi 152 miles east. Good metalled roads connect the city with all the neighbouring centres of trade and population ; and the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway affords access from Lucknow and Bengal on the east, and from the Doab on The city, civil station, and cantonments lie on an open plain the west. without walls or fortifications, intersected by a few ravines and patches The cantonments contain lines for a battery of of broken ground. artillery and regiments of European and native infantry, besides native vinces,

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