— BELGAUM. repairs
wells,
to
tanks
and old
wells,
planting out of trees on the roadsides,
237
roads,
and
bungalows,
travellers’
maintenance of a
for the
There are 6 municipalities in the District Belgaum Town, Gokak, Athni, Nipani, Saundatti, and Yamkanmardi. The total municipal receipts in 1880-81 amounted to ^6730, and the total dispensary.
expenditure to ;^5598 ; the incidence of taxation varied from 6d. In 1880-81, to 2S. 3d. per head in the different municipalities. the
amount
total
of
revenue
from
raised
the
including
District,
and local funds, was .;^i79,37o, showing an incithe land revenue alone realized dence of taxation per head of 4s.
imperial, municipal,
- ^i 28
,
7 io.
There are 4 dispensaries and persons in
all
i
During 1880-81, 17,129 17,030 were out-door and 99
hospital.
whom
were treated, of
In the same year, r 7,432 persons were vaccinated. number of deaths registered during the fourteen years ending
in-door patients.
The
total
1879, was returned at 338,112, being an average yearly mortality of 24,151, or a death-rate of 2573 per 1000 of the total population; in 1880, the number of deaths was 23,498, or a rate of 2 7 '2 per 1000.
During the year 1880, the number of births was returned at 24,184, of 12,526 were entered as male, and 11,658 as female children, or
whom
a rate of 28^0 per 1000.
In the year 1880-81, there were 195 Government schools, besides 5 missionary schools, or an average of one school for every 6 villages, with an attendance of 12,386 pupils, or 1-43 per cent, of the total population, though, if the percentage were calculated merely on the
population of the villages where there are schools, of the above
number were
for girls,
it
2
is
with 368 scholars
'9;
in
9 schools addition
there were 233 girls receiving education in mixed schools, making Educational expenditure, from imperial, a total of 601 girl scholars. local,
and other funds, ;^68o4.
and
local newspaper.
I
In Belgaum town there are
7 libraries
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Sometimes in April and May the heat is extreme, June and July the air is close and heavy, but on the whole the For a series of years climate is equable and pleasant to Europeans. from 1852 to 1861 the average annual rainfall was 46'32 inches; while for the twenty-two years ending between 1862 and i87r, 2477 In the latter year, the rainfall was 2 8 '5 7 1881 it was 32 '89 inches. At the close of the rainy inches, or 4'32 inches below the average. season, in October and November, fevers are common, but at other Medical Aspects
and
.
in
times, except in the wilder or less cultivated tracts near the Sahyadri Hills, the climate is healthy.
The
only famous place of pilgrimage in the District
goddess Yellama, year, at the full
in the
moon
the
hill
of the
Parasgad Sub-division, on which, twice
in the
of April and November,
fairs
is
are held, lasting for
