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Punjab.
Date:
1908
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![13 and 3,649 operations were performed. The expenditure was Rs. 15 ,000, chiefly contributed by municipal funds. The number of persons successfully vaccinated in 1903-4 Vaccina- was 13,398, representing 29-9 per 1,000 of the population. tion. [P. J. Fagan, District Gazetteer (1898-9); and Settlement Report (1899).] Montgomery Tahsil.—of Montgomery District, Punjab, lying between 30° 16^ and 31° 2' N. and 72° 27' and 73° 26' E., on both sides of the Ravi, with an area of 1,472 square miles. The population in 1901 was 76,573, compared with 93,648 in 1891, the,decrease being due to migration into the Chenab Colony. It contains the towns of Montgomery (population, 6,602), the head-quarters, and Kamalia (6,976); and 218 villages. The land revenue and cesses amounted in 1903-4 to Rs. 78,000. The greater part of the tahsll is uncul- tivated. It includes on the south a narrow strip of the Sutlej valley, from which it rises abruptly into the desert uplands lying between the old banks of the Beas and the Ravi. Farther north lie the Ravi lowlands, interspersed with great stretches of jungle, and, beyond the river, sloping gently upwards to- wards the fertile plateau irrigated by the Chenab Canal. Culti- vation is confined to the lands along the river, and a few scattered patches round the wells elsewhere. The scanty cultivation accounts for the low density of population, 52 persons to the square mile. Gugera Tahsil.— Tahsll of Montgomery District, Punjab, lying between 30° 39' and 31° 33' N. and 72*^ 59' and 73° 45' E., on both sides of the Ravi, with an area of 824 square miles. The population in 1901 was 119,622, compared with 113,447 in 1891. It contains 341 villages, including Gugera, the tahsil head-quarters, which was from 1852 to 1865 the head-quarters of the District. The land revenue and cesses amounted in 1903-4 to Rs. 1,33,000. On the south, the tahsll includes portions of the Sutlej valley, rising abruptly into the desert plateau of the Ganji Bar, which lies between the old bank of the Beas on the south and that of the Ravi on the north. Below the latter lies a strip of jungle, with patches of culti- vation. Farther north come the riverain tracts on both sides of the Ravi, which are scantily irrigated by inundation canals, and, beyond the river, rise gently towards the Sandal Bar. The Deg torrent flows in a deep bed close to the northern border of the tahsil, and falls into the Ravi near Gugera. Dipalpur Tahsil.— Tahsll of Montgomery District, Punjab, lying between 30° 19' and 30° 56' N. and 73° 25^ and 74° 8' E.,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29353415_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
