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The village police of the District aggregates a total strength of 1574. The regular police force numbered in 1881-82, 698 officers and men of ranks, being in the proportion of
all
The
total cost of
^18,400.
The
—with annual
i
to every
maintenance of the force
number
municipalities are 2 in
^2000
incomes of ;^8ooo and
yearly to almost the
full
amount
1077 of the population.
in that year
in local
amounted
to
— Bellary and Adoni respectively,
expended
Education of
improvements.
an elementary kind is carried on in the pidl or village indigenous schools, of which there w'ere in 1882, 267 w'ith an average attendance of 4800 pupils, one or more of these schools being established in every considerable hamlet. For higher-class teaching, grants aid
in I
are
Provincial
given
10
to
school at
supported by Government,
the
Roman
District,
Catholic
2
Anglo-vernacular
Church
of the
fees
covering
scholars
The London Missionary
about a third of the expenses. the
while
schools,
and
Bellary with a daily attendance of 320 are
only
Society and
have old-established missions in the
maintaining between them several schools and two asylums
for the poor.
Medical Aspects. rainfall
—The
climate
being only 20 inches.
to 83“ F. in
is
The
extremely dry, the average annual daily temperature ranges from 67°
November and December, and rises to an average of 93° mean from January to October inclusive being
during April, the yearly 84°.
Since 1820, eighteen years have been
officially
recorded as seasons
of epidemic cholera, the mortality in 1845 18,000, and in 1866 over 20,000. Fever exists in an endemic form, but in 1834, 1841, and 1866, the mortality from this cause was especially high; in 1880 the
number of deaths was returned
Ophthalmia is common, owing and the glare from the granite rocks. 1842, 1843, and 1844; occurring again
at 9559.
to the dryness of the atmosphere
Cattle-disease was epidemic in in
1847, 1848, and 1849.
was very ance
is
great, as also in 1868.
provided
for the
1^57) Ae loss of cattle from murrain Gratuitous medical advice and attend-
poorer classes by the
civil
dispensaries at
Harpanhalli, Kadlighi, Allur, Hospet, Adoni, and Bellary
— the expenses
being defrayed partly by local subscription, but mainly by municipal
These dispensaries, as a rule, are only resorted to by the poor charms and exorcisms have failed. The mortuary returns for the
grants. after
District during the three years ending
1870 gave an average mortality
In 1880 of 21,000, or about 13 per thousand on the total population. the total number of deaths from all causes amounted to 26,227, cr
about 16 per thousand. [For further information regarding Bellary, see the ALanual of the Bellary District, by J. Kelsall, Esq., C.S. (Madras, Also the Aladras Census Report for 1881, and the Madi-as 1872). Provincial Administration Reports from 1880 to 1883.
For the famine on in this
aspects of Bellary District, which are but slightly touched
