BANGALORE jail
contains
In
the
many
officer,
same 53
subordinate police
subordinate
officers,
officers,
of
police force consisted of
superintendent,
i
at
an
4
averages tion.
or
every
to
- !^4, 15s.
aggregate
Government was
of
cost
62
878 men
^^13,797, of these
According to square miles
766 of the population
of schools in
234,
attended by
12 '4 square miles,
to every
officers,
total of
while
of the
the cost
per square mile, and 4|d. per head of popula-
id.
The number
superior
making a
which ;^38 o 6 was paid from local sources. policeman to every 3^3 figures, there is i District area,
superior
i
and 527 constables; the town and
and 230 constables
maintained
ranks,
all
65
long-term convicts from the entire State of Mysore.
year, the District
cantonment of
DISTRICT.
1880-81 aided and inspected by 10,775 scholars, being i school to every thousand of the
and 16 scholars
population.
Medical Aspects
.
— The climate of Bangalore town and the surrounding
noted for its healthiness, but in the hilly jungles towards the The mean annual west and south, malarious fever is endemic. temperature is 76 '2° F., the extreme range in any single year having been country
is
The average annual rainfall is 36 inches, distributed over about The heaviest fall generally occurs during the prevalence 90 of the north-east monsoon in October from December to May there is usually little or no rain. The most prevalent disease is malarious 42°.
days.
fever, frequently
common
at
the
attended with enlargement of the spleen
beginning
and close
of the
occasionally appears in an epidemic form, attributed
from Madras.
Small-pox
hot season, and at the
is
always more or
commencement
it is
monsoons.
most
Cholera
to importation
less prevalent
during the
of the rains, though vaccination
now systematically conducted in every taluk. Pneumonia in natives, and congestion of the lungs in Europeans, are common. In recent years there have been some cases of typhoid fever, confined to the European population. On the other hand, the severe but not fatal epidemic of dengue fever in 1872 was almost entirely limited to the Out of a total number of 10,003 deaths reported in 1880, natives. is
5470 were assigned
to fevers, 82 to small-pox,
563 to bowel complaints,
4 to cholera, 1 1 to suicide, and 24 to snake-bite or wild animals ; to all The births registered for 1880 were 8333 males, other causes, 3849.
and 7941 females; total, 16,274. There are two charitable establishments at Bangalore for the relief of the sick the Bowring Civil In 1880 a total of 1441 in-patients Hospital and the Pet Dispensar}’. were treated at the hospital, and the number of deaths was 221, or The dispen153-3 per thousand; the out-patients numbered 24,825. sary in-patients numbered 247 during the year 1880, of whom i died; the number of out-patients was 21,215.
—
[For further information regarding Bangalore District, see the Mysore II. E
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