A treatise on relapsing or famine fever / by R.T. Lyons.

  • Lyons, R. T.
Date:
1872
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Credit: A treatise on relapsing or famine fever / by R.T. Lyons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    10. There are also very heavy balances of tuccavi, amoimting in all to about Es. 84,000: above Es. 24,000 of this money - was advanced from the one per cent, income-tax reserve. For the most part it is represented that this Hccavi was given to enable the zemindars to feed their ryots, and employ them on small village works; in such case, the expenditure was, in point of fact, a famine relief given under another form; and the Government has its retmm in the prevention of the utter depopidation, and consequent loss of revenue that would other- wise have ensued. It will be for the local authorities to dis- criminate any instances in which such remunerative works were carried out, as would render it equitable to demand re- payment ; and to propose the demand of repayment in whole or in part, where in such case it would not injuriously affect the estate or the resources of the proprietors. On good cause being shown, the Government will be prepared to relax the demand and remit the balance. 11. To accomplish the work here sketched will require the undivided attention of the Deputy Commissioner for some months. It wHl also be necessary for him to make local in- spections and inquiries into the extent of cultivation, the number and means of the agi'icultural population, their cattle, the facilities of iiTigation, and generally the prospects of early recovery or otherwise; and the Commissioner will be reqiiested to make arrangements for the deputation of an Assistant Commissioner to relieve the Deputy Commissioner as much as possible of the current duties of his district. 12. Colonel Davidson has now acquired a considerable knowledge of the district and its people, and I have every confidence that he will complete this somewhat diE&cult and delicate task with care and iudgment. W. MUIE. Lieutenakt-Govekuok's Camp, Talbehut, 22nd Jamoary, 1872. APPENDIX V. Extract from a Report on the Question of Temporary and Permanent Settlement as airpUed to the District of CawniJore, hy W. S. Halsey, C.S., Collector and Magistrate^of Cawnpore, 1872, from the Indian OBSEavEB, of 25th May, 1872. I ASSERT that the abject poverty of the average cultivator of this district is beyond the belief of any one who has not seen