BASSEIN TO JVNSITIF AND TO WN aided
by the
The Roman
State.
good school
established a
Catholic
community have
Bassein town, as well as a
in
201
girls’
also
school,
with an average attendance of 84 pupils. In 1874, Government established a middle-class school. The number of pupils on March 31,
At the cess school in Ngathaing-Chaung the fees and 6d. for girls. Primary education is in the hands of Buddhist monks, and the schools of those monks who 1881, was
are
is.
192.
per
will allow
month
for boys,
are e.xamined yearly.
it,
number of inspected
Tlie total
schools in 1880-81 was 368, of which 2 were Government, 4 Mission schools, and 368 indigenous village schools. Total number of pupils,
8630.
This
exclusive of uninspected schools, for which
is
The Census Report
are available.
no
of i88i, however, returned
details
17,642
boys and 1833 as under instruction in that year, besides 81,097 males and 3292 females able to read and write, but not under instruction ; proportion of educated males, 48‘65 per cent, of the male ])opulation; ditto of females,
Climate,
etc.
per cent, of the female population.
275
—The climate of Bassein
is
relaxing,
owing to the situation
of the District in the delta of the Irawadi, with the country around
by
intersected
muddy banks
tidal creeks, the
of which are exposed
during the greater part of the day. In 1881-82, the total rainfall was ii2‘2o inches. Cholera and fever are reported to be endemic, whilst
bowel complaints, dropsy, and rheumatism are common. Small-pox is much spread by inoculation. [For further information regarding Bassein, seethe article in the British Burma (Rangoon, 1879), vol.
ii.
pp.
84-112; the British Burma Census Report of 1881
and
the Provincial Administration Reports from 1880 to 1883.]
—Township
bank of the Bassein river, in Burma. Towards the north the ground is undulating, but the country to the south is flat, and highly cultivated with rice. The town of Bassein lies in the west centre. In 1881 the population numbered 48,367 ; the gross revenue was ^11,983. Town, head-quarters station, and chief port of Bassein Bassein. District, British Burma; situated in the delta of the Irawadi, on both banks Bassein.
on the
left
Bassein District, Pegu Division,
British
—
of the Bassein
river.
in 1876, 22,417.
Lat. 16° 46' n., long. 94° 48' 10" £.
In 1881
it
had
Buddhists, 3781 Hindus, 3362
34
‘others.’
Population
risen to 28,147, consisting of 19,848
Muhammadans, 1122
Municipal revenue
in
Christians,
and
1881-82, ;£i28^-, expenditure,
^1207. On the left bank of the river, in the Ze-Chaung quarter, is Shwe Mii-htaw Pagoda. This now forms the centre of the English
the
fort,
in
oflice.
jMyothit,
which
The
are
also
the
and police bank are Athegyi, The small Theng-bhaw-gyeng suburb, court
-
houses,
other quarters of the town on the
and Talaing-Chaung.
treasury,
left
containing the rice mills and store yards of the principal merchants.
