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The cost incurred in connexion with poorhouses and
State kitchens, all charges included, amounted to Rs. 10,48,922,
the average cost per head of the inmates thus falling at
1641 pies.
The total cost of outdoor relief amounted to
Rs. 35,54,555, the average expenditure per head being 8’90
pies.
Besides the gratuitous relief administered at the cost
of the State, similar relief was distributed under the control
of officers of Government in the Family Domains of the
Maharaja of Benares and in estates managed by the Court of
Wards. The expenditure in the form of gratuitous relief in
the Family Domains amounted to Rs. 41,055 ; while in the
Court of Wards’ estates Rs. 59,612 were similarly spent (the
Balrampur Estate contributing Rs. 41,929 out of this total).
An accurate tally of the number of indigent people relieved
has not been kept; but it may be reasonably put at lj
million units for one day.
This exhausts the various channels of purely State
activity: and it is now possible to present a summary of the
statistical results for both the smaller famine of 1896 and the
great famine of 1897.
The statistics of expenditure and relief during the
Bundelkhand famine of 1896 have been already given in
Chapter II. They brought, it will be remembered, the account
down to the end of August 1896. September 1896 was a
transition period. Famine, though imminent, had not been
declared, and the small measures of relief still carried on in
a few districts, which had suffered severely in the preceding
summer, were more in the nature of test than organized relief.
Throughout the whole Provinces the number of persons
(units for one day) assisted by Government in that month was
but 381,840, and the expenditure Rs. 28,869. The total cost
of the smaller famine of 1896 may therefore be stated as
Rs. 12,09,022, and the number of people thereby relieved as
19,881,840 (units for one day).
Taking the 1st October 1896 as the date on which
_ T , ,. the general famine began and systematic
* Including persons re* ^ o «/
lieved in tlie Family Do-
mains and in Court of
relief was again fairly launched, the
wards’ estates. numbers* relieved by the State from that
date till the end of the famine were as follows :—
By the Department of Public Works ... 179,744,948
By Civil Officers'—
(a) On works ... ... ... 13,861,435
(b) In poorhouses and by outdoor relief ... 90,373,960
Total units for one day ... 283,980,343
The expenditure, according to the Department of
Accounts*, under the head of famine, including Rs, 3,38,127
The cost incurred in connexion with poorhouses and
State kitchens, all charges included, amounted to Rs. 10,48,922,
the average cost per head of the inmates thus falling at
1641 pies.
The total cost of outdoor relief amounted to
Rs. 35,54,555, the average expenditure per head being 8’90
pies.
Besides the gratuitous relief administered at the cost
of the State, similar relief was distributed under the control
of officers of Government in the Family Domains of the
Maharaja of Benares and in estates managed by the Court of
Wards. The expenditure in the form of gratuitous relief in
the Family Domains amounted to Rs. 41,055 ; while in the
Court of Wards’ estates Rs. 59,612 were similarly spent (the
Balrampur Estate contributing Rs. 41,929 out of this total).
An accurate tally of the number of indigent people relieved
has not been kept; but it may be reasonably put at lj
million units for one day.
This exhausts the various channels of purely State
activity: and it is now possible to present a summary of the
statistical results for both the smaller famine of 1896 and the
great famine of 1897.
The statistics of expenditure and relief during the
Bundelkhand famine of 1896 have been already given in
Chapter II. They brought, it will be remembered, the account
down to the end of August 1896. September 1896 was a
transition period. Famine, though imminent, had not been
declared, and the small measures of relief still carried on in
a few districts, which had suffered severely in the preceding
summer, were more in the nature of test than organized relief.
Throughout the whole Provinces the number of persons
(units for one day) assisted by Government in that month was
but 381,840, and the expenditure Rs. 28,869. The total cost
of the smaller famine of 1896 may therefore be stated as
Rs. 12,09,022, and the number of people thereby relieved as
19,881,840 (units for one day).
Taking the 1st October 1896 as the date on which
_ T , ,. the general famine began and systematic
* Including persons re* ^ o «/
lieved in tlie Family Do-
mains and in Court of
relief was again fairly launched, the
wards’ estates. numbers* relieved by the State from that
date till the end of the famine were as follows :—
By the Department of Public Works ... 179,744,948
By Civil Officers'—
(a) On works ... ... ... 13,861,435
(b) In poorhouses and by outdoor relief ... 90,373,960
Total units for one day ... 283,980,343
The expenditure, according to the Department of
Accounts*, under the head of famine, including Rs, 3,38,127