Gazetteer of the Kangra Distric

· 1899 · Public domain (published pre-1930) · archive.org ↗

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4CHAP. I.—GENERAL DESCRIPTION. |

5Government of India, is more instructive than. the rainfall Chapter I, B.

6Climate. .

7Rotang =. « | 13,000

8Eula ...4|Homta .., os | 24,500

9| Bhobhu ... i 10,000

10[| Sirikund ... .« | 15,000 |

11| Jalori ve ss» | 10,500

12Barij «ss

13Gargaragan as | 17,000

14| Beakteo ae a» | 11,000

15The mean temperature of Sultdnpur, the capital of Kulu,

16was found by the Messrs. Schlagintweit to be as follows about

171860, from May to November ; but Sualtanpur 1s only 4,000

18feet above sea-leve! and is one of the hottest places in the sub-

19division—

20May = ce <a ou .. f0d degrees Fah.

21June ana ona ane ane” an ia iZ7 all LE

22July - ion a “ae re — we os -. "3

23AUTRE oss 8 Pre vue con | wl rh ae

24September ee ‘fe ass oy

25October ask PIL Per Prt iriell Pra 65-0 ” n

26November hee ioe ane aaa asa reg t) we he

27The climate is on the whole healthy, es Disoase,

28. nee y to. Euro-

29peans, but there is a good deal of chronic sickness among tho

30natives, in great part due no doubt to defective sanitation.

31Visitations ofcholera have not been unknown, and in the summer

32of 1892 the valley of the Bids was swept by the scourge from

33south to north. In former days small-pox found numerous

34' victims, but the scraples of the people in regard to vaccmation

35appear recently to have been overcome, though in 1692 the

36jégirdir of Waziri Rap, a deacendant of the Rajpat kings of

37Kalu, fell a victim to his neglect of the precaution. Malarial

38fever is common during the monsoon rains inthe lower valleys,

39and the inhabitants of the higher villages show great aversion to

40venturing themselves in such places in the fever season, $0 much

41so that they prefer to abandon even the sweets of litigation if

42these are only to be had bya visit to the Tabsildir’s Vourt at