BAA^KUJ^A.
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east, and annexations from Manbhum on the west, which have already been referred to. In 1880-81, the total District revenue amounted to The Po 74 373 of which ^45,853 was derived from the land tax. regular police force consisted in 1880 of 2 superior and 53 subordinate officers, with 208 constables, maintained at a total cost, including all contingencies, of ;^5486. In addition there was a municipal police force of 7 officers and 127 men, maintained at a total cost of;^875, defrayed by rates levied within municipal limits and a rural force of village watchmen numbering 8345 men. Each village watchman has charge, on an average, of 30 houses, and receives an average pay in money or lands of )
)
^3,
a year.
4s.
The
estimated aggregate cost, both Government and
private, of maintaining these several police forces
amounted,
in 1880, to
equal to a charge of ^^12, 12s. 4d. per square mile, or 7^d. per head of the population. In 1880, the average daily number of
- ^33 ,o 65,
prisoners
in
the Bankura
33o'34, the total 1719.
Education
is
and Bishnupur subsidiary
jail
number of
was
prison,
prisoners received during the year being
gradually making
In
progress in the District.
1856-57, the total number of Government and aided schools was 14, with 1354 pupils; in 1872-73, the returns showed 134 Government and of which 58 private schools, attended by 6425 pupils, costing
Government contributed
In 1880, the number of aided and 103. inspected Primary Schools alone was 1186, attended by 29,568 pupils.
The Census Report instruction,
of 1881 returned a total of 30,599 boys as under as able to read and write, out of a
and 54,133 other males
male population of 507,136. Of the female population of 534,616, only 507 girls were reported as under instruction, and 409 other females as able to read and write. total
Medical Aspects,
etc
.
—The
climate
of Bankura
is
and
oppressive
relaxing in the hot season, but from October to the end of February it
is
bracing and enjoyable
damp and
during the rains the District
unhealthy as those farther
east.
The
temperature, according to the latest returns,
is
is
not so
average annual
mean
about 78’6o° F.
the
In average rainfall for the 26 years ending 1881 was 56‘47 inches. 1881, the rainfall at Bankura town was returned at 73'27 inches, or i6'8o inches above the
Bankura
Intermittent fever
average.
as in other Districts of Bengal,
and
is
is
common
particularly severe at Bishnupur since the lamine of 1866.
diarrhoea,
and dysentery
are also
present in a sporadic form, and
breaks occurred
in
1855,
i860,
common.
Cholera
is
Leprosy,
almost always
sometimes becomes epidemic 1864, and 1866.
occasionally epidemic in the District.
[For further
in
said to have been
out-
Small-pox, too, partii ulars
is
regarding
District, see my Statistical Account of Bengal, vol. iv. pp. 205 308 (Triibner, 1876); also for information regarding the state of the country on the accession of British rule, see my Annals of Rural
Bankura
to
