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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 18, p. 34.

34 HVLT.IN DISTRICT The regular police force consists of 804 of all ranks, including 4r cantonment and 252 municipal police, under a Superintendent, who usually has one Assistant Superintendent and 5 'inspectors under hire. The village watchmen number 943. The District is divided into 18 police circles,.with 5 outposts and 9 road-posts. The District jail at head-quarters has accommodation for 743 prisoners. It receives prl- soners sentenced to terms not exceeding three years from the Districts of Multan and Muzaffargarh, and in the hot season from Mianw1li. The Central jail, situated 4 miles outside the city, is designed to hold 31,197 prisoners. Convalescents from all jails in the Punjab are sent here. Multan stands third among the twenty-eight Districts of the Province in respect of the literacy of its population. In 1901, 5•7 per cent. of the population (ro•1 males and 0•4 females) could read and write. The high proportion of literate persons is chiefly due to the Hindus, among, whom education is not, as elsewhere, practically denied to the lower castes. The number of people under instruction was 3,684 in 1880-1, 7,355 in 1890-1, 8,156 in 19oo-r, and 8,881 in 1903-4. In the last year the District had one training, one special, 13 secondary and 82 primary (public) schools, and 26 advanced and 141 elementary (private) schools, with 296 girls in the public and 166 in the private schools. The chief institutions are a Government normal school and three high schools at Multan city. The District also possesses five zamindari schools, where special concessions are made for the purpose of extending education to the agricultural classes. There is a school of music (unaided) for boys at Multan. The expenditure on education in 1903-4 was Rs. 89,ooo, of which fees contributed RS. 25,000, municipalities Rs. 16;ooo, the District fund Rs. 19,000, and Provincial revenues Rs. 22,000, the rest coming from subscriptions and en- dowments. Besides the civil hospital, two city branch dispensaries, and the Victoria Jubilee Hospital for women in Multan city, the District pos- sesses eight outlying dispensaries. At these institutions, 119,044 out- patients and 2,510 in-patients were treated in 1904, and 6,153 operations were performed. The Church Missionary Society also. maintains a female hospital at Multan.. The total expenditure in 1904 was Rs. 27,000, Rs. 16,ooo being contributed by District and municipal funds in equal shares. The number of persons vaccinated in r903-4 was 27,700, repre- senting 39 per i,ooo of the population. Vaccination is compulsory in Multan city. [E. D. Maelagan, District Gazetteer (1901-2); Settlement Report (1901); and `Abul Fazl's Account of the Multan Sarkar,' Journal As. Soe. of Bengal (1901), p. 1; Saiyid MuhammadLatif, Early History