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Punjab.
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1908
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![The regular police force consists of 875 of all ranks, including Police and 5 cantonment and 499 municipal police, under a Superintendent, who usually has one Assistant, one Deputy-Superintendent, and 6 inspectors under him. The village watchmen number 1,374. There are 12 police stations and 3 outposts. The District jail at head-quarters has accommodation for 234 prisoners. The District stands eleventh among the twenty-eight Districts Education, of the Province in respect of the literacy of its population. The proportion of literate persons in 1901 was 4-3 per cent. (7*4 males and 0-5 females). The District contained 7,182 pupils under instruction in 1880-1,16,273 in 1890-1,16,872 in 1900-1, and 15,190 in 1903-4. In the last year it possessed 2 Arts colleges, 21 secondary, 1:54 primary, and 2 special (public) schools, and 22 advanced ajid 120 elementary (private) schools, with 1,951 girls in the public and 535 in the private schools. The two Arts colleges are at Amritsar city, which also contains 3 girls’ schools (one high and 2 middle schools). The District has 48 primary schools for girls, and stands first in the Province in the matter of female education. Amritsar municipality also maintains industrial and commercial schools. The total ex- penditure on education in 1903-4 was 1*9 lakhs, to which Government contributed Rs. 19,000, fees bringing in Rs. 46,000, and subscriptions and endowments Rs. 39,000, while District and municipal funds provided the remaining cost. Besides the civil dispensary, a female hospital, two city branch Hospitals dispensaries, and a midwifery school at Amritsar, the District has ^ ’ pensaries. seven outlying dispensaries. In 1904 a total of 166,364 out- patients and 2,741 in-patients were treated, and 9,265 operations were performed. The expenditure was Rs. 36,000, most of which was contributed by municipal funds. The District also contains seven mission dispensaries, which receive grants from District and municipal funds; and a leper asylum at Tarn Taran, which was transferred to the Mission to Lepers in India and the East in 1903. The number of successful vaccinations in 1903-4 was 30,528, Vaccina- representing 30 peF 1,000 of population. The Vaccination Act is in force in Amritsar city. [J. A. Grant, District Gazetteer (1892-3); Settlement Report (1893); and Abstract of the Code of Customary law for the Amritsar District (1893).] Amritsar Tahsil.— Tahsil of Amritsar District, Punjab, lying between 31° 29' and 31° 51' N. and 74° 42' and 75° 24' E., with an area of 545 square miles. It is bounded on the east by the Beas, which divides it from the State of Kapurthala.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29353415_0083.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
