Reports on the Settlement of the Land Revenyue of the Provinces Under the Madras Presidency (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...uncultivable as it had found them. Owing to the almost general failure of the early rains, and the uncertain aspects of the season during the months of October and November, a very large bteadth of valuable wet land was never brought under second crop, and the cultivation of dry graius, such as oil-seed, dholl, raggy, and horse-grain, was infinitely more limited, than it would have been under the stimulus of the high prices then obtainable for these and evn-y other kind of raw produce. The yield in these latter pioducts may be set down at from quarter to half of an average crop, because, in addition to the insufficiency of moisture for their seasonable growth, blight and insect did great injury. 6. The subjoined Statement shows the average rain-fall during the last five years: --7. During the first three quarters of the year on which I am reporting, the general health was on the v. hole good. Owing probably to the dryness of the season, Cholera did not show itself to any appreciable extent until the end of February, when it broke out in a very fatal form in the Kalahastri Zemindary, and spread with more or less virulence to other parts of the district. The number of deaths from this epidemic se set down at nearly 700, being 25 per cent, below the mortality of the previous year. The disease was most fatal in the Chendragherry, Vellore, and Wandawash taluks. I may note here, with reference to a recent remark, that it has always been the practice to send out medicine to Paragraphs 40 and 41 of the Honorable Mr. Ellis' Report., .., to Gorernment, dated 21st September 1866, No. 218. any part ot the district where the epidemic may be shewing itself in formidable proportionsThere were 424 deaths from Fever reported, but this disease too was less general even in the...