AD.2Y1IAISTRATION 3T7
1880-1. 18go-i. IQoo-1. 903-4-
Land revenue 8,27 8,56 10,62 9,98
Total revenue . 1,5,78 18,40 18,96 21,39
The management of local affairs outside municipal areas is entrusted
to a District council and four local boards, each having jurisdiction
over one tahsal. The income of the District council in r903-4 was
Rs. 1,05,000, while the expenditure on public works was Rs. 34,000,
on education RS. 27,ooo, and on medical relief Rs. 6,ooo. NAGPUR,
RAMTEK, KHAPA, KALMESHWAR, UMRER, MOWAR, and SAONER are
municipal towns.
The police force-under a District Superintendent, who is usually
aided by an Assistant Superintendent-consists of i,oo6 officers and
men, with a special reserve of 45. There are 2,130 village watchmen
for 1,693 inhabited towns and villages. Nagpur city has a Central jail,
with accommodation for 1,322 prisoners, including 9o females. The
daily average number of prisoners in 1904 was 710. Printing and
binding, woodwork (including Burmese carving), cane-work, and cloth-
weaving, are the principal industries carried on in the jail.
In respect of education the District stands third in the Province,
nearly 5 per cent. of the population (9-2 males and o-7 females) being
able to read and write. The percentage of children under instruction
to those of school-going age is 14. Statistics of the number of pupils
are as follows : (1880-i) 10,696, (1890-1) 12,394, (1900-1) 14,991,
(1903-4) 14,141, including 1,135 girls. The educational institutions
comprise two Arts colleges, both at Nagpur city, with 170 students,
one of these, the Morris College, also containing Law classes with 42
students ; 5 high schools, 16 English middle schools, 17 vernacular
middle schools, and 147 primary schools. The District also contains
two training schools and four other special schools. The expenditure
on education in 1903-4 was 1•74 lakhs, of which i lakh was derived
from Provincial and Local funds, and Rs. 30,000 from fees.
The District has 17 dispensaries, with accommodation for 201 in-
patients. In 1904 the number of cases treated was 270,025, of whom
1,905 were in-patients, and 6,560 operations were performed. The
expenditure was Rs. 40,ooo. Nagpur city also contains a lunatic
asylum with 142 inmates, a leper asylum with 3o inmates, and a
veterinary dispensary.
Vaccination is compulsory only in the municipal towns of Nagpur,
Umrer, and Ramtek. The number of persons successfully vaccinated
in 1903-4 was 33 per i,ooo of the District population.
[R. H. Craddock, Settlement Report (1899). A District Gazetteer is
being compiled.]
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