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MYSORE STATE
The number of newspapers and periodicals published in the State
in 19or was ii in English, 7 in the vernaculars, and 3 in both English
and vernacular. A third of the whole treat of politics. There are five
English papers with a circulation of from zoo to soo, the principal
being the Daily Post (Bangalore). All these give general news. Of
the Kanarese papers, the Wesleyan Vrittdnta Patriha (Mysore weekly)
and 1Ylahildsakhi for women (Mysore monthly) have considerable circu-
lations. Their Harvest Field (Mysore monthly) in English is also
popular. The Nadegannadf (Bangalore), Suryodaya (Bangalore), Vrit-
tanta Chintdmani (Mysore), are Kanarese weeklies, with circulations
varying from 1,000 to soo, and give general and political news. In
Hindustani are the Kdsim-u1-Ahhbdr (bi-weekly), and the Edward
Gazette, an old paper under a new name (weekly), both published in
Bangalore, and treating of general and political news. The Tamil
paper is the Tdraka (Bangalore bi-weekly), with a circulation of zoo.
Of the Kanarese monthly periodicals, Vidyaddyini is a journal of
education. Karndlaka Granthamdld publishes new works, and Karnd-
taka Kdvyakaldnidhi prints old unpublished works. All these are
issued in Mysore city.
The number of books registered in 1901 was 30, exclusive of official
publications, such as the volumes of inscriptions issued by the Archaeo-
logical department. There were 3 in English, 23 in Kanarese, 1 in
Telugu, and 3 in Sanskrit and Kanarese. The subjects chiefly treated
of come under the heads of religion, fiction, and history. The principal
original works were four, of which two were based on the Ramayana
story, one was an allegory on virtue and vice, and the other was a com-
position by a wife of the Maharaja who died in 1868, on the reputed
marriage of a Musalman princess of Delhi to Cheluvaraya or Krishna,
the god at Melukote, said to have taken place in the thirteenth
century.
The Victoria (opened 1goo) in Bangalore city, the Bowring in the
Civil and Military Station, and the General Hospitals at Mysore and
Medical. Shimoga, are first-class hospitals. Before the Victoria
was opened, St. Martha's Hospital, founded by the
Lady Superior of the Convent of the Good Shepherd, took the place
of a civil hospital for Bangalore city. Second-class hospitals exist at
the District head-quarters, and Local fund dispensaries at all tdluk
head-quarters and large towns. A Medical School was established in
1882 for training subordinates, but was given up i n 1886 in favour
of paying students to attend the large and well-equipped Medical
Colleges at Madras and Bombay. A local medical service was
organized in 1884 and improved in 1897.
For women and children there are the Maharani's Hospital at
Mysore, the Maternity at Bangalore, the Lady Curzon in connexion
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