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BIJNAUR TAHSIL AND TOWN. Medical Aspects.—
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endemic diseases of Bijnaur comprise and bowel complaints. Ophthalmia also
chief
intermittent fevers, dysentery,
much trouble, and small-pox not unfrequently occurs. The total number of deaths recorded in the year 1880-81 was 23,213, or 30 ’5
causes
per 1000 of the population. preceding
five years
The
average recorded death-rate for the
was 34^04 per 1000.
During the same
year, the
District contained 5 charitable dispensaries, at Bijnaur town, Naji'babad, Nagina, Sherkot, and Chandpur, in which 58.947 persons received
treatment; average daily number of patients, in-door, 30'! 9 ; out-door, The climate, on the whole, may be considered pleasant and 364‘99.
The average yearly rainfall for the 30 years ending 1881 was The maximum during this period was 59'6 inches in 35'79 inches. 1880-81, and the minimum 23‘i inches in 1860-61. [For further
healthy.
regarding Bijnaur, see the Settlement Report of the by A. M. Markham, Esq., C.S. (1874); the Gazetteer of the North-Western Provinces., vol. v. pp. 238-498, with a Map (Allahabad, 1879); the Census Report of the North-Western Provmces for 1881; and the Administration Reports ol those Provinces from 1881 to 1883.] Tahsil of Bijnaur District, North-Western Provinces, Bijnaur. lying around the head-quarters station. Area, 30 7 ‘07 square miles, of which 2047 are cultivated; population (1881) 124,096; land revenue, information District
—
^21,950; total revenue, ;^24,355 ; rental paid by cultivators, ^^42,640 ; incidence of Government revenue, 2s. 3d. per acre. In 1883 the Sub-division contained 4 criminal and 4 civil courts, with 3 police stations {iahs'ils) ; strength of regular police, including municipal and town police, 103 men; village watchmen (chaukiddrs) and road police, 299.
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Bijnaur. Town and administrative head-quarters of Bijnaur District, North-Western Provinces. Lat. 29° 22' 36" N., long. 78° 10' 32" e. Population (i88i) 15,147, namely, Hindus, 7524; Muhammadans, 7463; Christians, 144 ; and ‘others,’ ii area of town site, 380 acres.
Municipal income in 1 880-8 r, ^^841 expenditure, ;^683. Bijnaur
Jains, 5
stands on slightly undulating ground about 3 miles from the left bank of the Ganges, whose rich plain it overlooks. It is a neat but unpre-
tending
little
country town, with more than the usual number of brick-
built houses.
Through
centre runs a broad main road, the principal and flanked with good drains. Nine lines from the town into the surrounding country. The town its
place of business, metalled
of road radiate is
the centre of a large local trade in sugar, for which Bijnaur has a
manufacture of Brahmanical threads, cotton cloth and Occupied during the Mutiny by the rebel Nawab of Naji'babad Post-office, dispensary, American Methodist {see Bijn.vur District). Great bathing fair at Daranagar, on the Ganges, 6 miles Mission. lasts 5 days, and attracts 40,000 pilgrims. south, in November
high reputation
knives.
