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Punjab.

Date:
1908
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Punjab. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Local and municipal. Police and jails. Education. Hospitals and dis- pensaries. auctioned annually in large blocks. The amount realized under the new system in 1903-4 was Rs. 46,000. The collections of land revenue and of revenue from all sources have been, in thousands of rupees :— 1880-1. 1890-1. 1900-1. 1903-4. Land revenue 4,87 3,4^ 4P9 Total revenue 5,82 6,62 5T8 6,54 The District contains three municipalities : Montgomery, Kamalia, and Pakpattan. Outside these, the affairs of the District are managed by a District board, whose income, derived mainly from a local rate, amounted in 1903-4 to Rs. 50,000. The expenditure was Rs. 43,000, schools and dispensaries forming the largest items. The regular police force consists of 449 of all ranks, of whom 21 are munieipal police. The Superintendent usually has 4 inspectors under him. The village watchmen number 584. There are 17 police stations, one outpost, and 5 road- posts. Trackers are enlisted in the District police force, and one is kept at each police station. They often render most valuable assistance in the pursuit of criminals and stolen cattle. The combined Central and District jail at head- quarters has accommodation for 1,522 prisoners. The prin- cipal jail manufactures are carpets, matting, cotton and woollen clothing. Montgomery stands thirteenth among the twenty-eight Dis- tricts of the Province in the literacy of its population, of whom 3‘8 per cent. (6*7 males and 0*4 females) are able to read and write. The proportion is highest in the Montgomery tahsll. The number of pupils under instruction was: 1,505 in 1880-1; 3,371 in 1890-1 ; 3,097 in 1900-1 j and 3,824 in 1903-4. In the last year there were 5 secondary and 37 primary (public) schools and 2 advanced and 116 elementary (private) schools, with 125 girls in the public and 128 in the private schools. The District possesses two high schools, one the Government high school at Montgomery and the other a private school at Kamalia. The total expenditure on educa- tion in 1903-4 was Rs. 23,000, of which fees brought in Rs. 8,000, District and municipal funds contributing Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 3,000 respectively. Besides the civil hospital at Montgomery town, the District possesses six outlying dispensaries. In 1904 the number of cases treated was 91,816, of whom 1,859 were in-patients,
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