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BANDA.
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The
land assessment in 1870-71
amounted
to
^130,482, of which
were collected. Since then a reassessment of the whole District has been made, and the new settlement, which came into force in 1882, resulted in a further reduction of the land revenue demand to ;^i 16,231. There are 8 Fiscal Divisions or pargands, con-
_j^i3o, 476
The number
taining 1596 separate estates.
of proprietors
is
returned
Zavihiddri, 3187 ; pattiddn, 21,293; revenue-free, 160. The total revenue in
at 25,591, classified as follows;
bhdydchdra,
1251
and
1870-71 was ;^i 67,488, which in 1881 had decreased to ^129,535. As Banda forms a portion of the Allahabad Division, it is administered
under the Regulation system organized in 1803. The civil jurisdiction There of the whole District is in the hands of the Subordinate Judge. The are 13 magisterial, 2 civil, and 13 revenue and rent courts. District contains 24 police stations and ii outposts. The regular police, in 1880-8 r, amounted to 523 men, maintained at a cost of ^6580 from imperial funds. The municipal or town police in 1880
numbered 88 men, costing ^590. {chauk'iddrs).
The
There are also 1723 village watchmen one jail, the average number 1850, 121 in i860, 292 in 1870, and
District contains only
of prisoners in which was 555 in 258 in 1880. Education is advancing slowly.
In i860, there were
1870 the total had increased to In 1880-81, there were 142 schools, under Government inspec4966. tion, and receiving State aid in the District, attended by 3884 pupils. This excludes uninspected and indigenous schools outside the Education Department. The Census Report of 1881 returned 5890 boys and 120 girls as under instruction in that year, besides 16,869 males
3006 children under instruction;
and 149 females able
The
in
read and write, but not under instruction. two administrative Sub-divisions, Banda and
to
District contains
Karwi.
Medical Aspects.
— The cold season
in
Banda
of the neighbouring Districts, frost being very sets in
about the middle of March, and
The atmosphere
is
almost unknown. observed. heat,
On
distinguished by
The
beautiful
is less
intense than that
The
rare.
hot weather
the spring crops are cut by April.
its
clearness, fog
phenomenon
and dust being
of the mirage
is
often
the other hand, this purity of the air contributes to the
and many deaths occur from exposure
—January,
February, 61
Mean
to the sun.
tem-
March, 82‘5° April, 94° 86‘2° 90'6° September, 84'5° August, May, 96°; June, 947°; July,
October, 83°; November, 75°; December, 63'6°. The average annual
perature
F.
'9°
rainfall for
a period of 30 years ending 1881-82 was 39 inches, the year being 28 ‘9 inches, or 10 inches below the The climate is healthy for natives, but produces fever
rainfall in the latter
average.
and ague among Europeans. The only endemic disease is fever, which becomes epidemic from August to November.
malarial
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