Report on the medical topography and statistics of the Northern, Hyderabad and Nagpore Divisions, the Tenasserim Provinces and the Eastern Settlements.

  • Madras. Medical Board Office.
Date:
1884
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Credit: Report on the medical topography and statistics of the Northern, Hyderabad and Nagpore Divisions, the Tenasserim Provinces and the Eastern Settlements. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    MA9UL1PATAM. pulation,according to the census of (1837), of males 1,77,472, females 1,54,567, making a total of 3,32,039, or about 69 souls to the square mile. It was formerly one of the northern circars, and belonged to the Nizam, who ceded it in 1765, to the English. Upwards of two centuries ago, the Dutch had a commercial settlement here, and several of their tombs bearing date 1660, are still to be seen; they do not appear to have had any houses in the pettah, but to have lived entirely in the fort, for the security of their property. The French under M. Dupleix acquired possession of the fort, and part of the surrounding territory. In 1765 the fort was re-captured from them, after a smart engagement, by a detachment of the English army under Colonel Forde; and has ever since remained in our possession. The inhabitants are chiefly gentoos, the proportion of mahomedans not being more, it is said, than 1 in 20. Boundaries and The (Jistrict is bounded on the south-west by appearance of the country. the river Kistnah, on the north-west by the Nizam’s territories, on the north-east by the river Godavery, and on the south-east by the bay of Bengal. From Beizwar- rah, a town on the banks of the Kistnah, about 45 miles from Masulipatam, the country to the north-west is hilly, and rises in elevation as it approaches the Nizam’s boundaries ; some of the valleys are picturesque and very fertile, although, there is a good deal of jungle,affording shelter to tigers, bears, and other wild animals. To the south-east of Beizwarrah, as far as the sea, the country is an extensive plain, without any elevation, that can be called a hill; the general level of this plain is but little above the sea, and in one part near its middle, it sinks somewhat and forms the great Colair lake. Along the coast, the level is rather higher, in consequence of the sand banks thrown up by the sea, which oppose the only barrier to its encroachment, when spring tides and hurricanes occur.