Report on the medical topography and statistics of the ceded districts / Compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office.

  • Madras State
Date:
1844
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Credit: Report on the medical topography and statistics of the ceded districts / Compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Ceded Districts, one 56 the Military dap lie of the Madras presidency, came into the possession of the Honor- able East India Company in the year 1800, by a treaty enter- ed into with His Highness the Nizam, or Soobah of the Deccan, subsequent to the fall of Tippoo Sultan, and the par- tition of his territories. The country which may be described as a table-land, lying between the eastern and western ghauts, at an average ele- vation of about 1600 feet above the level of the sea, is of a triangular shape, and extends between the 13th and 16th degrees of north latitude, and the 76th, and 79° 30” of east lon- gitude ;—comprising an area of 25,950 square miles, with a population of 2,307,964 inhabitants. It is bounded on the north by the Nizam’s dominions, from which it is separated by the rivers Toombuddra and Kistnah;—-on the east by the districts of Nellore and Guntoor, the eastern ghauts form- ing the natural boundary on this side ;—the southern and western aspects of the country being bounded by the pro- vince of Mysore, and a part of the Southern Mahratta division. The general appearance of the country is irregularly moun- tainous, with several ranges of hills, of both granitic and se- condary formation, and extensive plains of regur or cotton soil, lying between them. The principal rivers are the Toombuddra, Kistnah and Pennar. The Ceded Districts, properly so called, is divided into two collectorates, those of Bellary and Cuddapah, to which the principality of Kurnool has lately been annexed. The military stations are, Bellary the head quarters of the divi- sion, and also the residence of the Civil authorities of the collectorate ;—Cuddapah and Kurnool, stations for single na- tive corps ; and the hill fort of Gooty, where a detachment