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Punjab.
Date:
1908
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![Medical. middle school, maintained by the Scottish Mission. The State also maintains a girls’ school, and the mission has some girls’ and low-caste schools. There were altogether 8 schools for boys and girls, with 206 pupils, in 1905. The only hospital is the Sham Singh Hospital at Chamba town, with accommodation for 21 male and 10 female in- patients. The latter are treated by a lady Hospital Assistant with a trained nurse. The State also maintains a branch dispensary at Tissa. The whole department is under an Assistant Surgeon. At these institutions 14,217 cases, in- cluding 437 in-patients, were treated, and 697 operations performed in 1903. The whole cost, which amounted to Rs. 9,846, is borne by the State. A leper asylum is main- tained in connexion with the hospital. Vaccination has become very popular, and the State maintains a separate department under the Assistant Surgeon. In 1903 the number of persons vaccinated was 3,325. [S^a^e Gazetteer (in press).] Brahmaur (Trdhmapuro). — Village in the Brahmaur wazdrat, and the ancient capital of the Chamba State, Punjab, situated in 32° 27' N. and 76° 37'' E., on the Budhil, a tributary of the Ravi. Population (1901), 263. It con- tains three ancient temples, of which the largest is of stone and dedicated to Manimahesh, an incarnation of Siva, with an inscription of 1417. The second temple of stone is dedicated to the Narsingh or lion incarnation of Vishnu ; and the third, mostly of wood, is dedicated to Lakshana Devi, with an inscription of Meru Varma, a ruler of Brahmaur in the seventh century. This temple exhibits a mass of elaborately carved woodwork. [A. Cunningham, Archaeological Survey Reports^ vol. xiv, pp. 109-15, and vol. xxi, pp. 7-13; Indian Antiquary^ vol. xvii, pp. 7-13.] Chamba Town.—Capital of the Chamba State, Punjab, picturesquely situated in 32° 29' N. and 76° ii' E., on the right bank of the Ravi. Population (1901), 6,000. Shut in by hills on the east and south, it lies on a plateau between the deep gorges of the Ravi on the west and the Saho on the north. It is built on two terraces. On the lower is the chau- gdn or public promenade and recreation ground, with the Residency (now the State guesthouse) at the southern end, and surrounded by public offices, &c. On the upper terrace stands the palace, with the residences of the State officials and the better class of the townspeople beyond. The town](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29353415_0440.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
